Install MSYS2 then upgrade it:
pacman -Syu
You might need to run it again (it tells you to):
pacman -Su
Install the required dependencies:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3 mingw-w64-x86_64-python-gobject \
mingw-w64-x86_64-python-cairo mingw-w64-x86_64-poppler mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc \
mingw-w64-x86_64-python-lxml mingw-w64-x86_64-qpdf mingw-w64-x86_64-pybind11 \
mingw-w64-x86_64-gettext mingw-w64-x86_64-gnutls mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pillow \
mingw-w64-x86_64-python-dateutil mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pip mingw-w64-x86_64-libhandy \
mingw-w64-x86_64-python-setuptools-scm git python-pip intltool
and
pip install --user https://launchpad.net/python-distutils-extra/trunk/2.39/+download/python-distutils-extra-2.39.tar.gz
/mingw64/bin/python3 -m pip install --user keyboard darkdetect https://github.com/jeromerobert/cx_Freeze/zipball/pdfarranger
pikepdf cannot be installed from PyPI for the MSYS2/Ming64 python. It must be built from source. First get the source:
git clone https://github.com/pikepdf/pikepdf.git
cd pikepdf
Switch to the latest tag and build, for example:
git checkout v6.2.5
/mingw64/bin/python3.exe -m pip install --user --no-build-isolation .
Now that pikepdf is installed you may also install img2pdf:
/mingw64/bin/python3.exe -m pip install --user img2pdf
Get the PDF Arranger sources from a MSYS2 shell:
cd
git clone https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger.git
Then
cd pdfarranger
./setup.py build
/mingw64/bin/python3 setup_win32.py bdist_msi
/mingw64/bin/python3 setup_win32.py bdist_zip
After running setup.py build it's possible to run PDF Arranger without creating the installer:
cd pdfarranger
./setup.py build
/mingw64/bin/python3.exe -m pdfarranger
MSYS2 no longer work in Wine (see msys2/MSYS2-packages#682). To
create a pdfarranger installer in Wine you must first install the required mingw-w64 packages
on a real Windows box. Then copy the MSYS2 /mingw64 to Linux and run installation process with
wine /path/to/mingw64/bin/python3 instead of /mingw64/bin/python3.
To run the PDF Arranger in Wine you may have to:
unset $(env |grep ^XDG_ | cut -d= -f1)
(This is currently outdated and broken)
alias pythonwin32="docker run -v local:/root/.wine/drive_c/users/root/.local -v $PWD:/pdfarranger -w /pdfarranger -it jeromerobert/wine-mingw64 wine cmd /c z:/mingw64/bin/python"
cd pdfarranger
./setup.py build
pythonwin32 -m pip install --user pikepdf==1.19.3 img2pdf python-dateutil https://github.com/jeromerobert/cx_Freeze/zipball/pdfarranger
pythonwin32 setup_win32.py bdist_msi
pythonwin32 setup_win32.py bdist_zip