# HG changeset patch
# User Marcin Kuzminski <marcin@python-works.com>
# Date 1360515149 -3600
# Node ID 321ca2e69004c040ada1bcaa7689ce9e5d87672a
# Parent  674a8fad3abcc0c154d356bdd58cb95e7ea95629
installation win document updates

diff -r 674a8fad3abc -r 321ca2e69004 docs/installation_win.rst
--- a/docs/installation_win.rst	Sun Feb 10 17:13:25 2013 +0100
+++ b/docs/installation_win.rst	Sun Feb 10 17:52:29 2013 +0100
@@ -13,8 +13,13 @@
 .. note::
 
    This installation is for 32bit systems, for 64bit windows you might need
-   to download proper 64bit version of "Windows Installer" and Win32py
-   extensions
+   to download proper 64bit versions of the different packages(Windows Installer, Win32py extensions)
+   plus some extra tweaks.
+   These extra steps haven been marked as "64bit".
+   Tested on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, 9-feb-2013.
+   If you run into any 64bit related problems, please check these pages:
+   - http://blog.victorjabur.com/2011/06/05/compiling-python-2-7-modules-on-windows-32-and-64-using-msvc-2008-express/
+   - http://bugs.python.org/issue7511
 
 Step1 - Install Visual Studio 2008 Express
 ------------------------------------------
@@ -41,6 +46,15 @@
   Silverlight Runtime and SQL Server 2008 Express Edition are not
   required, you can uncheck them
 
+.. note::
+64bit: You also need to install the Microsoft Windows SDK for .NET 3.5 SP1 (.NET 4.0 won't work).
+Download from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3138
+
+.. note::
+64bit: You also need to copy and rename a .bat file to make the Visual C++ compiler work.
+I am not sure why this is not necessary for 32bit.
+Copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvars64.bat to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\amd64\vcvarsamd64.bat
+
 
 Step2 - Install Python
 ----------------------
@@ -54,6 +68,8 @@
 Remember the specific major and minor version installed, because it will
 be needed in the next step. In this case, it is "2.7".
 
+.. note::
+64bit: Just download and install the 64bit version of python.
 
 Step3 - Install Win32py extensions
 ----------------------------------
@@ -68,6 +84,10 @@
   When writing this guide, the file was:
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20217/pywin32-217.win32-py2.7.exe/download
 
+  .. note::
+64bit: Download and install the 64bit version.
+At the time of writing you can find this at: 
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20218/pywin32-218.win-amd64-py2.7.exe/download
 
 Step4 - Python BIN
 ------------------
@@ -146,6 +166,18 @@
 "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition" -> "Visual Studio Tools" ->
 "Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt"
 
+.. note::
+64bit: For 64bit you need to modify the shortcut that is used to start the
+Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt. Use right-mouse click to open properties.
+Change commandline from::
+
+%comspec% /k ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"" x86
+
+to::
+
+%comspec% /k ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"" amd64
+
+
 In that CMD (loaded with VS2008 PATHs) type::
 
   cd C:\RhodeCode\Env\Scripts (or similar)