Re: [pywin32-bugs] build vs 2003

[Mark L. <mar...@gm...>]

I figured out my problem, pywin32 doesn't build against the latest =
windows SDK, setup.py looks for the wrong reg keys for the sdk....
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  From: Mark Line=20
  To: pyw...@li...=20
  Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:44 AM
  Subject: build vs 2003


  Hi,

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  I had a quick look though the old messages and didn't find what I was =
looking for... (I may be blind)

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  I'm having problems building the pywin32 extensions, I'm running under =
XP sp2 with visual studio 2003 and have the windows SDK installed, I try =
building simply using "python setup.py -q build"

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  However I receive the following errors:

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  Building pywin32 2.5.210.0

  Warning - can't find an installed platform SDK

  Traceback (most recent call last):

    File "setup.py", line 1546, in <module>

      ('', ('pywin32.pth',)),

    File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup

      dist.run_commands()

    File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_commands

      self.run_command(cmd)

    File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command

      cmd_obj.run()

    File "setup.py", line 359, in run

      build.run(self)

    File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 112, in run

      self.run_command(cmd_name)

    File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command

      self.distribution.run_command(command)

    File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command

      cmd_obj.run()

    File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 290, in =
run

      self.build_extensions()

    File "setup.py", line 490, in build_extensions

      self.build_extension(ext)

    File "setup.py", line 678, in build_extension

      why =3D self._why_cant_build_extension(ext)

    File "setup.py", line 426, in _why_cant_build_extension

      raise RuntimeError, "Can't find a version in Windows.h"

  RuntimeError: Can't find a version in Windows.h

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  Ultimately I'd like to build a merge module for an msi, however i =
can't even build it myself right now!

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  Any help would be great?

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  Thanks

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  Mark