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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Installing Subversion from a Zip or Installer File under Windows

REF: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/INSTALL

Of all the ways of getting a Subversion client, this is the easiest. Download a Zip (*.zip) or self-extracting installer (*-setup.exe) file from: http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=91 For a Zip file, run your unzipping utility (WinZIP, ZipGenius, UltimateZIP, FreeZIP, whatever) and extract the DLLs and EXEs to a directory of your choice. Included in the download is the SVN client, the SVNADMIN administration tool, and the SVNLOOK reporting tool. Note that if you need support for non-English locales you'll have to set the APR_ICONV_PATH environment variable to the path of the iconv directory in the folder that contains the Subversion install. You may also want to add the bin directory in the Subversion folder to your PATH environment variable so as to not have to use the full path when running Subversion commands. To test the installation, open a DOS box (run either "cmd" or "command" from the Start menu's "Run..." menu option), change to the directory you installed the executables into, and run: C:\test>svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk svn This will get the latest Subversion sources and put them into the "svn" subdirectory. If using a self-extracting .exe file, just run it instead of unzipping it, to install Subversion.

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