General instructions for installing from source (advanced users) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. _wingen: #. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 14.2 Standalone: Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019 #. Install Python 3.7 (if it isn’t already installed) and add it to your system path. #. Install the following Python packages (version indicated if less than most recent): * numpy * scipy * matplotlib < 3.2 * pillow * wxpython < 4.1 * h5py * cython * fabio * pyFAI * hdf5plugin * numba #. Download the RAW source file (:file:`RAW-{x}.{y}.{z}-Source` where :file:`{x}.{y}.{z}` is the version number) from sourceforge ( `https://sourceforge.net/projects/bioxtasraw `_) #. Extract RAW to a directory of your choice. #. In the top level RAW directory run ``python setup.py build_ext --inplace`` to build the extensions. #. In the :file:`bioxtasraw` subdirectory run :file:`RAW.py` using python. #. Enjoy! * If you have problems, please consult the detailed installation guides and the :ref:`solutions to common problems ` below. If that doesn’t help, please contact the developers. Notes for python 2 installation ********************************* As of version 2.0.0, RAW is Python 3 compatible. The last guaranteed Python 2 compatible version of RAW is 2.0.0. However, it may still be possible to install RAW for Python 2. A few additional notes for that: #. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable and Visual C++ Compiler for Python. #. Install Python 2.7 #. Additional dependencies: * future #. Required version of pyFAI is 0.17