/ZBarWin64

Clone of the zbar library, patched for 64-bit Windows and with a wheel for 64-bit Python on Windows

Primary LanguageCGNU Lesser General Public License v2.1LGPL-2.1

ZBarWin64

A Windows 64-bit wheel build of the zbar Python package.

Installing on Windows 64-bit

Install a release from this repo:

https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/ZBarWin64/releases/download/v0.10/zbar-0.10-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl

The wheel was built using Visual C++ 2013. If Python reports an ImportError when import zbar is run then you will need to install the Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013.

Building

You should only need to build if you want to release a new version.

  • Install Visual C++ 2013 Community Edition

  • Build the 64-bit Release target of zbar64

  • Install the latest Python 2.7 release of Anaconda

  • Build the zbar Python extension module and a wheel:

    cd <where you cloned this repo>\python
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install wheel
build.bat