Srctools installation

Srctools Installation

This installation is targeted towards Python 3.4+

Required modules:

• cython
• PyInstaller
• importlib_resources (install version 1.1.0 with pip install importlib_resources==1.1.0)
• aenum

Required programs:

• Python 3.4+
• Git (optional)
• Visual Studio 2019-2020 (optional, necessary for compiling)

Installing:

download srctools

with git:

git clone https://github.com/TeamSpen210/srctools.git

without git:

• go to https://github.com/TeamSpen210/srctools and download srctools
• unzip and place in a desired location (remember this location)

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install srctools

Note: If you didn't use git, replace /Users/[USERNAME]/srctools with the path to your srctools folder

cd /Users/[USERNAME]/srctools

If you installed Visual Studio, you can run this directly to install srctools:

python3 setup.py install

If you did not install Visual Studio, you will have to make a slight modification to setup.py

Remove lines 5-13 of setup.py

Remove the following lines:

try:
    from Cython.Build import cythonize
    c_ext = cpp_ext = '.pyx'
except ImportError:
    print('Cython not installed, not compiling Cython modules.')
    c_ext = '.c'
    cpp_ext = '.cpp'
    def cythonize(mod):
        return mod

And replace them with this:

def cythonize(m):
    return []
cy_ext = cpp_ext = ''

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compile the postcompiler

python3 -m PyInstaller postcompiler.spec