Hello, I've been doing attempts to run CouchDB on Windows and it started successfully, with futon, on my Windows XP. I've guided by manuals on wiki and instructions on the author's site http://www.brunomlopes.com/software/couch-db-binaries. However, I had to do a lot of things(most of them are trivial, but taking time) before it installed. I checked out couchdb trunk and currently I'm trying to build it with linux autotools using cygwin, mingw(results are coming soon). The possible installators on windows could be(coming for free): -NSIS(Nullsoft Scriptable Installer System) from winamp's developers -WiX(from Microsoft with Common Public License) -Inno Setup (also possible but less desirable) all installers listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_installation_software#Microsoft_Windows
erlang is available for windows(they say, however, it is not supported multicore systems(SMP)) OpenSSL is also available, but requires VS 2008 redistributable spidermonkey works through cygwin gnuwin32.sourceforge.net contains autoconf,m4,sed for windows so we can use it work here will be related to modifying current build files(makefiles and config) in linux format for win32 using, there are differences(in path format for example, where used ';' instead of ':' and so on) once we installed all linux tools(including compiler) to windows, it is easy to produce info for build script in format of one installer ftom the list above. Produced installer should probably support native language. Regards, Alex
