I tried this earlier this week and posted the results without having tested my build on a clean machine. Thanks Marco for the early failure report.
I'm not sure why it failed, but I started again tonight with two CLEAN Windows XP virtual machines tonight (instead of Windows 2008). I followed my build instructions on one, and installed the result on the other. And it really seems to be working okay for me now! I tested on clean Windows XP and also a Windows 2008 ASP.NET development box. *** Now that the package actually works at least for me, I still need a non-English user to confirm that the portable and desktop versions both display the correct languages for Zim menus and dialog boxes, please. The desktop installer's text is English-only, but the application should show translations. *** Once I get a confirmation or two, I'll send Jaap a merge request. Windows-specific changes since 0.50 (last stable Windows release): * Desktop installer clears "$PROGRAMFILES/Zim Desktop Wiki" before writing to it. * Desktop UNINSTALLER correctly removes user-level and "all users"-level Desktop icon and Start Menu shortcuts (2008, 7, Vista). * Added 256x256 resolution image to zim.ico file for better appearance in Desktop folder (2008, 7, Vista). * Created portable installer package using PortableApps.com tools -- good for running Zim from a thumbdrive. Ready to final submit to PortableApps.com after we "go live" with 0.53. * Fixed "look and feel on windows: default gtk laf is used" https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/830043 . * notebooks.list and other config files are written with paths relative to $HOME now instead of absolute paths; this enables a Portable launcher without having to rewrite notebooks.list during every launch. The launcher script just has to set $HOME to the app's folder instead of the user's local profile. (I've got this covered.) * Added EULA.rtf (converted from ./LICENSE.txt) to desktop and portable installers. Yes it's one more thing to click on, but it may come in handy if someone finds the installer in a dusty archive years from now. * Fixed various bugs that caused Zim to fail to start entirely for Windows in 0.51 through 0.52 releases. Desktop installer http://www.glump.net/content/zim/Zim-setup-0.53_PRERELEASE_2011-09-09.exe PortableApps.com installer http://www.glump.net/content/zim/ZimDesktopWikiPortable_0.53_PRERELEASE.paf.exe Not-yet-merged Windows-related code changes to produce the above packages https://code.launchpad.net/~bkidwell/zim/pyzim-win-installer Always backup your data! If you try out this build, please follow the mailing list and upgrade when the FINAL 0.53 build for Windows is available.
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