Windows Installation

These instructions are for installing the toolkit on Windows 7 within Cygwin. This is considered experimental and may have issues.

Compile/Test on Windows Mobile devices

You must install:

1. Microsoft VisualStudio 2010 SP1 or higher (the express edition works fine)
2. Windows Phone 7 SDK (7.1SDK or higher http://create.msdn.com/en-US/home/getting_started)

Install Java

You must install a Java runtime to build some Mulberry components. Most people usually have this installed already, but if you don't, you can usually find it at:

http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp

Install cygwin

cygwin are a set of command-line tools ported from Unix-like systems to Windows; Mulberry uses quite a few of them.

1. Visit http://www.cygwin.com/
2. Download "setup.exe"
3. Place it somewhere convenient
4. Open NotePad (Win-r -> notepad -> Ok)
5. Copy and paste the contents of this batch file into notepad
6. Save the file as "cygwin_setup.bat" and place it in the same folder as "setup.exe"
7. Double-click cygwin_setup.bat - this will install cygwin with the packages we need to run Mulberry.

Note that you must run Mulberry from within a cygwin console. By default, this will be at Start -> All Programs -> Cygwin -> Cygwin Terminal

You will probably want to pin this to your Taskbar or copy it to your desktop.

Download Mulberry

Within the cygwin console you have a virtual directory structure that mimics Unix. You cannot use Windows file paths like C:\windows, and your Windows "hard drive" is actually mounted at:

/cygdrive/c

Many of the Mulberry tools will not work if your directory path has a space in it. Do not install/download Mulberry to a path that contains a space.

Open a Cygwin Console and navigate to somewhere in your C drive to put Mulberry. I tend to create a src dir off of /cygdrive/c and keep all of my source projects in there.

Remember: do not install Mulberry to a path that has a space in it!

cd /cygdrive/c
mkdir src
cd src
git clone git://github.com/Toura/mulberry.git

This will download the latest code from github to your computer. The code is viewable in your C:\src\mulberry dir, or via /cygdrive/c/src/mulberry in cygwin.

Install Mulberry Components

Follow the installation instructions on the README.