The windows stable version is what we call a portable package. You don’t have to install anything in “system” wide. Just unzip & run:
- Download the latest version from http://kivy.org/#downloads
- Unzip the package
- Then, in the unzipped package, you have a script called kivy.bat, use it for launching any kivy application
If you want to double-click and make it just “work”, you need to use the kivy.bat included in the package for starting Kivy application. To make it work, do
- Right click on the python file of the application
- Open With
- Select the default software
- Browse your files to select the kivy.bat
- Select “Always open the file with...” if you want
- Ok !
Next time, your python file will be executed with the Kivy’s python !
If you want just to use or develop with latest stable kivy, we offer you an alternative way with a console. You need a minimalist GNU system installed on your system. Use msysGit.
When you install the msysGit, you must select theses options:
- Don’t replace windows shell
- Checkout at-is, commit at-is (no clrf replacement !)
You’ll have an icon “Git bash” on your desktop, this is the console we want:
- Start “Git bash”
- cd “directory of portable kivy”
- source kivyenv.sh “full directory of portable kivy” (don’t use .)
You are now ready to launch python/kivy in commande line ! Just do:
python <filename.py>
Also, all other scripts and binary are available such as:
- cython
- gcc / make...
- easy_install
- gst-inspect-0.10
The latest windows package contain:
- Latest kivy stable version
- Python 2.7.1
- Glew 1.5.7
- Pygame 1.9.2
- Cython 0.14
- MingW
- Gstreamer
- Setuptools