Pillow/winbuild/README.md

Quick README

For more extensive info, see the Windows build instructions.

• See Current Windows Build/Testing process (Pillow#553), Definitive docs for how to compile on Windows (matplotlib#1717), Test Windows with GitHub Actions (Pillow#4084).

• Requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 or newer with C++ component.

• Requires NASM for libjpeg-turbo, a required dependency when using this script.

• Requires CMake 3.15 or newer (available as Visual Studio component).

• Tested on Windows Server 2016 with Visual Studio 2017 Community, and Windows Server 2019 with Visual Studio 2022 Community (AppVeyor).

• Tested on Windows Server 2022 with Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise (GitHub Actions).

The following is a simplified version of the script used on AppVeyor:

set PYTHON=C:\Python39\bin
cd /D C:\Pillow\winbuild
%PYTHON%\python.exe build_prepare.py -v --depends=C:\pillow-depends
build\build_dep_all.cmd
cd ..
%PYTHON%\python.exe -m pip install -v -C raqm=vendor -C fribidi=vendor .
path C:\Pillow\winbuild\build\bin;%PATH%
%PYTHON%\python.exe selftest.py
%PYTHON%\python.exe -m pytest -vx --cov PIL --cov Tests --cov-report term --cov-report xml Tests
%PYTHON%\python.exe -m pip wheel -v -C raqm=vendor -C fribidi=vendor .