Hi All,
Recently several of you have mentioned in the forum that the installation 
of Arches on Windows machine (especially 64 bit machines) have been 
problematic or worse.
In trying to follow up on some of these questions I recently installed 
Arches on a 64bit Windows 8 machine and I also ran into a few issues.

The good news is that I was able to eventually install Arches successfully 
on that machine and in the process I updated the install instructions for 
both Arches and Arches-hip.

Those instructions can be found here:
Arches: http://arches3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Arches-hip: http://arches-hip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

If you *CAREFULLY *follow the instructions for installing the dependencies 
and the application itself then everything should go smoothly.

There were a few items that I added to the documentation and they are:

   1. Make sure the JAVA_HOME variable points to the parent of the bin 
   directory (see this step 
   
<http://arches3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installing-dependencies-windows/#install-the-latest-java-development-kit-jdk>
   )
   2. Windows users need to explicitly point their application to a valid 
   gdal .dll file by adding a GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH setting to their settings.py 
   file (see step #6 in installing Arches-hip 
   
<http://arches-hip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting-started/#installating-arches-hip>).
 
    This needs to be done before step #7.
   
That was about it.  By following the updated instructions I can now 
successfully install Arches-hip on a 64bit Windows 8 machine (and I can do 
it consistently)!

Hopefully this helps some of the users that were running into issues.
Please let the team know if there is something else we missed.
Cheers,
Alexei

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