Windows users usually use (:p) binary packages. Upspear is distributed in two
different binary forms. For the brave, the source code is also available.


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Standalone binary distribution (i. e.: "The easy and lame, but cool way")
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If you downloaded this one (that is, if the file you downloaded is named
"upspear-X.Y-win32-standalone.zip"), you just need to unpack it wherever you
like ("c:\program files" is fine, as is a folder on your desktop, or whatever),
and double click on the "upspear.exe" file. You can also make a shortcut in your
Start menu if you prefer, but it's up to you to do it.

The cool thing with this package is that you can even unpack it to your PSP's
memory stick, so that you can run the program on every PC you connect your PSP
to! This makes Upspear really "portable", in all senses! ;)


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Small binary distribution (i. e.: "The professional way")
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If you have downloaded this one, you probably did it because the file was much
smaller. It is smaller because it doesn't include all the libraries the program
needs, as does the standalone package. This way, Upspear expects to find such
libraries installed in the system, so you must do that before running it.
Actually it's quite easy: just grab the Glade/GTK+ runtime environment from
http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net, and install it. Now unzip
"upspear-X.Y-win32-small.zip" wherever you like (there's no need to put it where
you installed the runtime environment, it will find it automatically), and
double click on "upspear.exe". Again, you can put a shortcut to your Start menu,
but it's up to you.

What is cool with this package is that when newer versions of Upspear are
released, you don't need to redownload/reinstall the runtime environment, but
just the small Upspear package, saving download time.


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Source distribution
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This is the hardest way to use Upspear, because you must compile it. For my
builds I use MinGW (http://www.mingw.org), so if you use a different compiler
you're on your own. Usually people who dare to compile know what they're doing,
so I'll just give some basic tricks:
- Install MinGW, MSYS and MSYSdtk.
- Install the Glade/GTK+ *development* environment.
- Get upspear-X.Y.tar.gz and unpack it.
- As there is no easy way of getting intltool on Windows (it's a perl script
  with requirements for some modules), you may have to comment all the INTLTOOL
  stuff in configure and Makefile's.
- Follow Linux instructions.
- Put in a single directory "src/upspear.exe" and "gui/upspear.glade". If you
  want i18n support, for instance for Italian, make there an "it/LC_MESSAGES"
  directory, and copy there po/it.gmo, renaming it to "upspear.mo". Take the
  small binary distribution as an example.

Good luck ;).

Actually I think you might be better off trying to build a SVN version, but we
don't have a public SVN server yet... ;)
