Installing on Windows

This guide describes the process of setting up Git, Python and Makahiki on Windows 7. These instructions will probably work on other versions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

Installing Python

1. First, we need the latest version of Python 2.x (as of this writing, it is 2.7.2). Go to http://www.python.org/download/releases/ and get the latest release. Make sure it is not 3.0 or higher!
2. Download and run the MSI installer for your system (x86 or x86-64). Install Python for all users of this system.
3. Make sure that Python is on your PATH. Go to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced System Settings. Click on the 'Environment Variables' button. If you want to make it available for all users, edit the PATH variable under 'System Variables'. Otherwise, you can edit the PATH variable under 'User Variables', creating it if it doesn't exist.
4. Append the path to your directory in which you installed Python. For example, if you installed Python to C:\Python27, then append a semicolon and that path to your PATH variable.
5. Open a command line window and type python. The interpreter should start. Close the interpreter by typing exit().

Getting distutils, easy_install, and pip