Windows Installation Tutorial: LedgerSMB

(Open source accounting/ERP application on Windows)

Content by Chris Travers, Gene Alexander (source: ledger-smb-users mail list)
Edited by Havard Sorli
This tutorial it not complete, please help us make it better.
Date: 26-12-2012

The steps

• Strawberry Perl for LedgerSMB 1.3.x or trunk.
• a web server - like MS IIS or Apache for Microsoft Windows
  Configure your web server to run Perl from CGI script.
  Get some info from this articles; Perl on IIS 7 (read the comments about Strawberry Perl) or Perl on Apache: enable mod_rewrite
• PostgreSQL for Microsoft Windows.
  Create ledgersmb database who has full rights on the database with user ledgersmb.
• a tested web browser. (Chrome or Firefox for Microsoft Windows)
  Internet Explorer 8 or 9 should work, but it's not extensive tested.
• LedgerSMB and get it working. You can install LedgerSMB largely as you would on Linux:
  cpan Module::Install
  perl Makefile.PL
  make 
  do not use make install at this point.

The only difference between Windows and Linux at that point is that you have to run the appropriate shebang utility (in dists/win32) for your version of Perl.

• Setup a database : The setup and login screen

If you get stuck or need help, feel free to ask questions on the ledger-smb-users mail list. If you need someone to actually do the install for you, there are a few of us who are probably quite happy to do so commercially.