Comment 53 for bug 187290

> it's a bit messed up because all the lines run
> together.

Maybe the patch for build.xml looks too much like html for your webbrowser? Right-click and Save as.. works for me.

> Still get shell window briefly

python.exe opens a console, you need pythonw.exe

> Your patch didn't have that all of Adib's earlier
> patch

Hmm.. I thought that part was already included. Maybe I looked at trunk

> Didn't put in the pythonw stuff from Adib as I
> couldn't figure out the conflicts.

Open build.xml, search for python.exe and add a similar line for pythonw.exe.

> The conflicts are in the main.cpp file.

It's basically the same code. Use the latest (copy _win32_set_inkscape_env from trunk, call it from main)