Installing from source code on Windows¶

Spectrum can be built on Windows, but only SQLite is supported as storage backend at the moment. Download the Cygwin setup file from Cygwin homepage. In the installation process, also choose these packages:

make, patch, unzip, zip, wget, git, subversion, autoconf, automake, gettext-devel, libtool, sqlite3

Checkout and compile Spectrum¶

Open the Cygwin Bash Shell and checkout Spectrum from the github repository:

git clone git://github.com/hanzz/spectrum.git
cd spectrum
Compile Spectrum
sh win-build.sh

On Windows 2000 you have to use:

sh win-build.sh win2k