There are a number of obstacles which prevent us from following the instructions on ​dev/win32.

For some dependencies, it is just a question of doing more manual work than running the 64-bit version of the installer, as is the case for ​setuptools and ​python wmi.

Then there's the problem that by default, you can't compile 64-bit programs with distutils and VC 2008... (see ​http://bugs.python.org/issue7511 and use this patch: ​http://bugs.python.org/file17959/vcvars4.diff - why isn't this merged and released??)

Unfortunately, other dependencies are even harder to deal with:

• ​pygtk (or even just plain GTK for that matter) do not provide 64-bit installers at present, and building from source is too tedious: see ​this discussion for details.
• ​gstreamer does not provide a 64-bit version, all the bindings are for 32-bit python only at present...

/usr/libexec and /usr/local/libexec do not (and should not, I suppose) exist under a standard Ubuntu install, and yet the packages contain references to them.

In particular, replacing them by /usr/lib/ and /usr/local/lib in

/usr/lib/python2.6/winswitch/utils/paths.py at lines 126 and 128 (+/- 1) is needed for the server to start.

AFAIK, the code is correct:

d = gtk.AboutDialog()
d.set_website("http://winswitch.org/")
d.set_website_label("winswitch.org")

But on those platforms, it comes up with an error...

Maybe now is the time to replace the whole thing with a custom dialog? Or at the very least, remove the URL for those platforms that cannot handle it!