Can't install mercurial or pysvn

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 26.06.2008 23:26, Kevin Grover wrote:
> Situation: I want to play with using Hg on Svn repositories.  I
> already have many and am quite familiar with it.  However, I sorely
> miss distributed WCs.
> 
> I installed Mercurial (1.0.1) under Windows XP using the packaged EXE.
>  However, there is no pysvn so I can't 'hg convert' svn repos.
> 
> So, I tried to 'python setup.py install' from the unpacked tarball.  I
> have python 2.5.2 and many packages already installed.
> 
> It says I need Visual Studio.  Or, to add '-c mingw32' to the setup
> command.  I tried 'python setup.py -c mingw32 install' and 'python
> setup.py install -c mingw32' and both failed (I have MinGW/MSYS
> installed).  Can I install hg from an egg (so I don't need to
> recompile binaries)?

Did you see http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/BuildingOnWindows
and the pointer to http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue1109 ?

I haven't tried mingw32 myself, just to post these two pointers.