Thread: [cx-oracle-users] setup.py in 4.4 - bdist_wininst/bdist_msi do not install cx_Oracle.pyd

I've just tried building cx_Oracle under Python 2.6, on Windows. Both
bdist_msi and bdist_wininst fail to include cx_Oracle.pyd in the
installer. The culprit seems to be the code that adds the Oracle
version to the build\libxxx directroy name - this isn't recognised at
a later stage (install_lib seems to be the problem) and distutils
believes there are no Python extensions to install.

I'm not sure if this is a Python 2.6 problem (hmm, no I just tried
with 2.5 and it's there too). Presumably it's something specific to my
installation, then, as it clearly worked when building the official
2.5 installers.

For what it's worth, this is the warning displayed during bdist_wininst:

installing to build\bdist.win32\wininst
running install_lib
warning: install_lib: 'build\lib.win32-2.5' does not exist -- no
Python modules to install
running install_data

Also, commenting out the lines

        if self.build_platlib is None:
            self.build_platlib = os.path.join(self.build_base,
                    "lib%s" % platSpecifier)

in build.finalize_options in setup.py appears to resolve the issue
(although it's clearly not a correct fix).

After my previous mistake getting the wrong version, I hope this isn't
the result of another dumb error on my part :-(

Paul.