Install Instructions

For local development / building stand-alone binaries

Windows

You need Python 2.7 32 bit. Download the Windows x86 MSI installer and be sure to add python to PATH during installation.

You can run mangle using 64 bit Python 2.7, but won't be able to build a binary with py2exe, and any performance difference is negligible.

Install virtualenv globally, if you don't already have it.

> pip install virtualenv

and install all dependencies in a venv in the mangle directory, e.g.

...\mangle> virtualenv venv
> venv\Scripts\activate
(venv) > pip install Pillow
(venv) > pip install reportlab

It can be pretty difficult to install PyQT4 from source, so prebuilt binaries are available at http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyqt4

You need PyQt4-4.11.4-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl

which you can install after placing the file in the mangle folder via

(venv) > pip install PyQt4-4.11.4-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl

So your final pip freeze can look like:

(venv) > pip freeze
Pillow==6.2.2
PyQt4 @ file:///.../mangle/PyQt4-4.11.4-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl
reportlab==3.5.59

You can run the GUI via

(venv) > python mangle.pyw

Optionally, you can install all the dependencies globally so you can simply click on the mangle.pyw file to run it.

To actually build a stand-alone .exe, install

(venv) > pip install py2exe_py2

A standalone binary can be created in the dist folder via

(venv) > python setup.py install