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xaratustrah committed Mar 17, 2016
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For some versions, binary releases for OSX and Win will be provided on GitHUB.
An Arch linux package is planned and will be announced.

#### Win Binary Release
The resulting file *icudt53.dll* which is very big (~22 MB) has been replaced by a minimal version taken from [this page](https://forum.qt.io/topic/37891/minimal-icudt51-dll-icudt52-dll-icudt53-dll-icudt54-dll-and-icudt55-dll). Finally using [UPX](http://upx.sourceforge.net/) the size of the resulting compilation under windows has been reduced by the following command:

upx --best --compress-exports=0 --strip-relocs=0 *.pyd *.dll

Please make sure that I have removed the files **MSVCP100.dll** and **MSVCR100.dll** because these can usually be found on every system.


#### OSX Binary release

This is still work in progress.

### Build / Run Prerequisites

**barion** is writen in Python 3.4 so it needs a standard working environment such as Linux,
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then you should get a binary code.

#### Miniconda / Anaconda

Unfortunately PyQt5 is not yet supported in the main channel. But it can be installed from various channels.
I have not tested it yet because I couldn't match the versions though. Anyone who makes it
please leave a line here for info.


## Acknowledgements
I am thankful to [carlkl](https://github.com/carlkl) for his valuable help in making a stand alone binary under MS Windows and also for fruitful discussions and suggestions.

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