Running ProfitPy on Windows

[rene]

Troy,

This seems an interesting project. I have been searching for a trading
application in Python for quite a while now, untill I came accross
your blog. Seems a great piece of work.

I read on your blog about ProfitPy running on Windows. This would be
ideal for traders that aren't very much interested in the underlaying
technology. Could you please elaborate on how you installed the
application on Windows.

Please note that I do have (some) experience with Python and have PyQT/
numpy/scipy running on my Windows XP machine.

Thanks!

Rene

[Troy Melhase]

> Troy,
>
> This seems an interesting project. I have been searching for a trading
> application in Python for quite a while now, untill I came accross
> your blog. Seems a great piece of work.

I'm glad you found it.

> I read on your blog about ProfitPy running on Windows. This would be
> ideal for traders that aren't very much interested in the underlaying
> technology. Could you please elaborate on how you installed the
> application on Windows.

The most common question I was asked regarding profitpy 0.1 (the old version, using PyKDE) was "how can I run this on windows?". When I started out with 0.2, I made the decision to use only libraries that would work on all three (linux, mac, win) platforms. So, yes, one goal is to have the toolkit available to traders without worry over getting it running on their OS.

To get the code working on windows:

1. download and install antlr, py-antlr
2. download java2python
3. checkout most recent ibpy from svn
4. build and install ibpy from sources

5. checkout most recent version of profitpy
6. install qt, sip, pyqt, and scipy from binaries
7. to enable plots, download mingw32 and pyqwt; build from source and install
8. to enable scintilla, download qscintilla (v 2?); build from source and install

steps 1-4 won't be required when profitpy 0.2 is released.

> Please note that I do have (some) experience with Python and have

> PyQT/numpy/scipy running on my Windows XP machine.
>
> Thanks!

best of luck! please let me know how you fare.

troy