Re: [cx-oracle-users] cx-oracle reverse engineer msi - or msi alternative?

[Anthony T. <ant...@gm...>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Mark McMahon <mar...@au...> wrote:
> Hi,
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> One trick might be to run something like
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> Msiexec.exe cx_oracle.msi targetdir=c:\some\directory
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> On another machine
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> That should get you the files in the MSI  - you could then maybe
> modify/re-create the setup.py script? (or get it and modify it from source
> distribution?), and use python setup.py install
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> The above is ‘possible’ though may not be the ‘right’ solution.
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> Hmm – I just looked in my site-packages folder – and it seems that cx_Oracle
> is in a pyd file (and no py files or package) (I never realized).
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> If I am right – then in that case you just need to copy cx_Oracle.pyd into
> the python\lib\site-packages directory on each machine. (assuming you have
> Oracle etc required).

You are correct. Simply copy the cx_Oracle.pyd file into some place in
your PYTHONPATH and you are good to go so long as you already have an
Oracle client of some sort on your machine.

Anthony