Windows Builds of Meld

[George Pippos <gpippos gmail com>]

Hi,

I read this on the Meld website:

"New Windows builds are currently unavailable. If you'd like to help out with reproducible binary builds, please contact the Meld mailing list."

I have been trying to build the source on my Windows PC but have had some difficulties.

What i have done:

1. Installed the latest version on Meld for windows (3.16.2).
2. Downloaded the latest source (3.18.0)
   
3. Attempted to build the source. > It failed so i installed cx_freeze
   
4. Commented out a few lines in build_exe_options of setup_win32.py. Namely: # "compressed": False, # "icon": "data/icons/meld.ico" as it was complaining that those options were not available
5. Attempted to build again. It said it couldn't find a bunch of dlls and fonts etc so I copied the installed Meld (from Program Files) to Python\Python36-32\Lib\site-packages\gnome because i found all the files it was looking for in Program Files from the previously installed version.
   
6. Attempted to build again. It failed saying that it was unable to find package "gi".
7. I installed pygtk. Failed again.

I would like to help out with these builds as i really like the application and i am primarily using Windows at the moment. Could anyone perhaps point me in the correct direction?

Regards,

George