

If you also want to build against 32-bit Python, we suggest you download python-2.7.5.msi and install it in c:\Python27_32. Download and install the gedit text editor for Windows.

To ensure that Windows knows that gedit is a text editor, use Windows Explorer to navigate to c:\Program Files (x86)\gedit\share\doc and right-click on README, and select Open.In the dialog, click Browse, then select c:\Program Files (x86)\gedit\bin\gedit.exe, and click OK to open the file. This will ensure that gedit appears in the list of editors for other text files you want to open in future. Note: be aware that some other installers may modify your system PATH in a way that causes gedit to break.If you start to get errors when launching gedit, this is probably what has happened. You can tell the installer not to actually run NSIS, no need for that. If you will be building ASCEND, you should also download the Inetc plugin and put the DLL from that zip file into the Plugins subdirectory where you installed NSIS. MinGW is a minimal GNU/GCC environment for Windows. MSYS is a command-line environment based on MinGW that mimics the Linux environment sufficiently well to allow a large portion of Linux-compatible software to also be compilable under Windows. There are many different combinations of ways to set up this environment. And things are made quite a bit more complicated by the fact that the official MinGW project does not support the 64-bit fork MinGW-w64, and as yet (Aug 2013) there is no nicely-integrated environment that supports installing everything automatically.
