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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:09:18 -0400
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On 8/1/2012 7:47 AM, Damon Register wrote:
> On 7/31/2012 11:49 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:
>> On 1/08/2012 10:48 AM, Damon Register wrote:
>>> 1. though I have looked in a few readme files, I don't see
>>> instructions for
>>>     installing what I have just built using MSVC.  Where can I find the
>>>     instructions for installing after building with MSVC?
>>
>> There is no such process.  In general, you can just run directly from
>> the built tree.
> That is a bummer.  That makes me more curious about how the Windows
> installer was made and how all the pieces were gathered together.

All I know is that the Windows installer is a .msi file created by a 
script that uses msilib. I don't know whether that script is in the 
repository.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy