Here are specific instructions on how to setup your Windows machine to run opensauce-python. On Windows, it is recommended to install Anaconda's Python distribution, not the release from the official Python organization.

• Recommended Python / Snack setup
• Alternate Python / Snack setup using Tkinter
• REAPER setup

Recommended Python / Snack setup: Call Snack in Tcl shell

1. Install Anaconda. It comes with the NumPy and SciPy packages pre-installed. Either 32-bit or 64-bit versions should work.

2. Install ActiveState's ActiveTcl. Be sure to pick the 32-bit version. The 64-bit version will not work with Snack.

3. Download Snack v2.2.10, Binary release for Windows with Tcl/Tk 8.1-8.4

4. Unzip the file to a folder, and in the resulting folder, double-click on install.tcl. This will install Snack.

We have successfully run Snack in Tcl using Active Tcl version 8.5, 32-bit.

Alternate Python / Snack setup: Allows Snack to be called via Tkinter

Note: Please take a look at #26, so you are aware of the issue involved in using Python's Tkinter library.

If you want to setup your machine so that opensauce-python can call Snack from Python, the steps are more complicated.

1. Install Anaconda, the 32-bit version. Anaconda comes with the NumPy and SciPy packages pre-installed. Be sure to use 32-bit version, even if you have a 64-bit Windows operating system.

2. Download the latest version of Snack Speech Toolkit "Binary release for Windows with Python 2.3" and unzip the file. Read the installation notes for Snack and Python.

3. Open a Windows command prompt and type

   > where anaconda
   

   to find out where Anaconda is installed. For example, if you installed Anaconda for all users, it might be installed at C:\ProgramData\Anaconda2.

4. Follow the installation notes for Snack. Copy tkSnack.py to the Lib directory. Assuming Anaconda is installed at C:\ProgramData\Anaconda2, tkSnack.py would be copied to C:\ProgramData\Anaconda2\Lib. Copy the snacklib folder to the tcl directory. Assuming the same Anaconda installation directory, snacklib would be copied to C:\ProgramData\Anaconda2\tcl.

   Now Python will be able to find Snack and call its methods.

5. From your Windows start menu, search for "Anaconda Prompt" and run this program. You should see a command line prompt, where you can now run commands like > python -m opensauce -h

REAPER setup

1. Install Cygwin

2. Install the Cygwin packages git, make, cmake, gcc-core, gcc-g++.

3. Run the Cygwin program, so that you see a terminal window.

4. Follow the instructions in the REAPER Git repository README and type the following commands in the terminal window:

   $ git clone https://github.com/google/REAPER.git
   $ cd REAPER
   $ mkdir build
   $ cd build
   $ cmake ..
   $ make
   

   Now the executable file reaper.exe will be in the folder [your Cygwin home directory]/REAPER/build

5. Add C:\cygwin\bin (32-bit Cygwin) or C:\cygwin64\bin (64-bit Cygwin) to your environment variable named PATH. This step is needed, so that when reaper.exe is called on the command line, the operating system can find the cygwin1.dll file it needs.

Currently, there is no Python package for REAPER available on Windows, so if you want to use REAPER, you have to build the executable.