onionshare/BUILD.md

# Building OnionShare

## GNU/Linux

Start by getting a copy of the source code:

    git clone https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare.git
    cd onionshare

*For .deb-based distros (like Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint):*

Note that python-stem appears in Debian wheezy and newer (so by extension Tails 1.1 and newer), and it appears in Ubuntu 13.10 and newer. Older versions of Debian and Ubuntu aren't supported.

    sudo apt-get install -y build-essential fakeroot python-all python-stdeb python-flask python-stem python-qt4
    ./build_deb.sh
    sudo dpkg -i deb_dist/onionshare_*.deb

*For .rpm-based distros (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS):*

    sudo yum install -y rpm-build python-flask python-stem pyqt4
    ./build_rpm.sh
    sudo yum install -y dist/onionshare-*.rpm

## Mac OS X

To install the right dependencies, you need homebrew and pip installed on your Mac. Follow instructions at http://brew.sh/ to install homebrew, and run `sudo easy_install pip` to install pip.

The first time you're setting up your dev environment:

    git clone https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare.git
    cd onionshare
    echo export PYTHONPATH=\$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ >> ~/.profile
    source ~/.profile
    brew install qt4 pyqt
    sudo pip install virtualenv
    virtualenv env
    . env/bin/activate
    pip install flask stem py2app
    # fixes a silly bug https://bitbucket.org/ronaldoussoren/py2app/issue/143/resulting-app-mistakenly-looks-for-pyside
    patch env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py2app/util.py < setup/py2app.patch

Each time you start work:

    . env/bin/activate

Build the .app:

    python setup.py py2app

Now you should have `dist/OnionShare.app`.

## Windows

The first time you're setting up your dev environment:

* Download and install the latest python 2.7 from https://www.python.org/downloads/ -- make sure you install the 32-bit version.
* Right click on Computer, go to Properties. Click "Advanced system settings". Click Environment Variables. Under "System variables" double-click on Path to edit it. Add `;C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Scripts` to the end. Now you can just type `python` to run python scripts in the command prompt.
* Go to https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html. Right-click on `get-pip.py` and Save Link As, and save it to your home folder.
* Open `cmd.exe` as an administrator. Type: `python get-pip.py`. Now you can use `pip` to install packages.
* Go to http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download and download the latest PyQt4 for Windows for python 2.7, 32-bit (I downloaded `PyQt4-4.11-gpl-Py2.7-Qt4.8.6-x32.exe`), then install it.
* Go to http://www.py2exe.org/ and download the latest py2exe for python 2.7, 32-bit (I downloaded `py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.7.exe`), then install it.
* Open a command prompt and type: `pip install flask stem`
* Go to `C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\flask\` and delete the folder `testsuite`. This is necessary to work around a py2exe bug.

To make an exe:

* Open a command prompt, cd to the onionshare folder, and type: `python setup.py py2exe`. This will create a ton of files in `dist`, including `onionshare.exe`.