Installing

Linux

• Install pyswisseph, PyQt, and python-dateutil through your distribution's package manager.
• Download the master tarball or clone the git repository
• Run with the following command:

/path/to/python3 main.py

Windows

Python 3:

• follow instructions in installer

Pyswisseph: These instructions were only tested with version 1.76.00!

• Install mingw (if 32bit) or TDW-GCC (if 64bit). Don't forget to set up a mingw instance using TDW-GCC if you're using that.
• If you're on 64bit, install libpython for mingw-64 from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#libpython
• download pyswisseph
• edit the setup.py file to include the following for building the module:

extra_link_args = ['-lpthread']

• If on 64bit, edit the os.system() calls to refer to mingw32-make to build the internal libswe library
• If on 64bit, edit the Makefile to refer to gcc, not cc
• build the module (ideally specifying the compiler to be MinGW) and install it
• Now that the module is installed, get swisseph_18 and place the contents in c:\swisseph, since this is where it keeps the swisseph ephmeris files on windows

python-dateutil:

• edit tzwin.py because of this bug

PyQt:

• follow instructions in installer

Running the program itself:

• Download the master tarball or clone the git repository
• Run with the following command:

\path\to\python3 main.py