Installing pyfusion on Windows XP

Release:0.81 Date:February 01, 2017

This procedure uses native Windows installs, an alternative method is to use cygwin.

Requirements

Enthought Python Distribution contains python, numpy, matplotlib and other libraries used by pyfusion

Recommended

msysgit is a windows version of the Git distributed version control system, used to maintain pyfusion.

Installing Pyfusion

If you haven’t already got a local directory in your PYTHONPATH, add one, e.g: make a directory C:\Documents and Settings\user\code\python and, using My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables set PYTHONPATH to %PYTHONPATH%;C:\Documents and Settings\user\code\python.

If you have msysgit installed, use Start->All programs->Git->Git Bash:

cd code/python
git clone git://github.com/dpretty/pyfusion.git
cd pyfusion
git checkout -b dev origin/dev

Making a custom configuration file

Edit the file C:\Documents and Settings\user\.pyfusion\pyfusion.cfg