[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-3153014 ] still can\'t build pywin32-214 from source (alas!)

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Bugs item #3153014, was opened at 2011-01-08 04:43
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Submitted By: Robert Lerche (rlerche)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: still can\'t build pywin32-214 from source (alas!)

Initial Comment:
I downloaded mapilib.i from http://pywin32.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pywin32/pywin32/com/win32comext/mapi/src/

I deleted and then unzipped pywin32-214.zip, copied mapilib.i and retried \"python setup.py install\".  It gets much further but now fails at:

E:\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\BIN\\nmake.exe /nologo /f makefile_pythonwin SUB_DIR_O=c:\\pywin32-214\\build\\temp.win32-2.7\\Release\\scintilla SUB_DIR_BIN=c:\\pywin32-214\\build\\temp.win32-2.7\\Release\\scintilla DIR_PYTHON=c:\\p\\python-2.7
	c:\\p\\python-2.7\\tools\\scripts\\h2py.py Include\\scintilla.h
# Generated by h2py from stdin
	c:\\p\\python-2.7\\tools\\scripts\\h2py.py Include\\scilexer.h
# Generated by h2py from stdin
	type scintilla.py > ..\\pywin\\scintilla\\scintillacon.py
The system cannot find the file specified.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: \'type\' : return code \'0x1\'
Stop.
error: command \'nmake.exe\' failed with exit status 2

I attach the build log and a system info dump.  I noticed a bunch of warnings: \"WINVER not defined. Defaulting to 0x0600 (Windows Vista)\".  In fact this is Windows/XP SP3 in a VMWare virtual machine.

Thanks in advance.

Hmmm... "uploaded files must be no larger than 256K".  I'm deleting the beginning to comply.


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>Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2011-01-08 10:56

Message:
strange - setup.py uses os.path.join(os.environ['temp'],
"pywin32.version.txt") to refer to that file - if it possible you had an
invalid TEMP var set?

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Comment By: Robert Lerche (rlerche)
Date: 2011-01-08 07:51

Message:
OK, I think I've found another real bug.  As a workaround I manually
created a DOCUME~1\... directory under pywin32-214 and copied
pywin32.version.txt there and that made the install run to completion.  

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Comment By: Robert Lerche (rlerche)
Date: 2011-01-08 07:15

Message:
One last error, and I think this might be real.  Install runs almost to
completion but then can't find pywin32.version.txt.  Something seems to be
missing a "\", I'm not sure what.

byte-compiling
c:\p\python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\shell\knownfolders.
py to knownfolders.pyc
byte-compiling
c:\p\python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\shell\shellcon.py t
o shellcon.pyc
byte-compiling
c:\p\python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\shell\__init__.py t
o __init__.pyc
byte-compiling
c:\p\python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\taskscheduler\__ini
t__.py to __init__.pyc
running install_scripts
copying build\scripts-2.7\pywin32_postinstall.py ->
c:\p\python-2.7\Scripts
running install_data
Installing data files to c:\p\python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\
error: can't copy 'C:DOCUME~1\ROBERT~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\pywin32.version.txt':
doesn
't exist or not a regular file

C:\pywin32-214>type C:DOCUME~1\ROBERT~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\pywin32.version.txt
type C:DOCUME~1\ROBERT~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\pywin32.version.txt
The system cannot find the path specified.

[ but ... add a "\" and ...]

C:\pywin32-214>type
C:\DOCUME~1\ROBERT~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\pywin32.version.txt
[ ====================^  ]

type C:\DOCUME~1\ROBERT~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\pywin32.version.txt
214


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Comment By: Robert Lerche (rlerche)
Date: 2011-01-08 06:04

Message:
Aha again!  Some web searching turned up this:
Command line arguments in Windows : Python
http://objectmix.com/python/355959-command-line-arguments-windows.html

My file association for ".py" doesn't include a %* so arguments are not
passed to a script!  I don't know how this happened.  This is what I get
for building everything from source.  :-)



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Comment By: Robert Lerche (rlerche)
Date: 2011-01-08 05:42

Message:
OK, it seems like h2py.py is not seeing the filename argument.  I don't
understand why as yet.

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Comment By: Robert Lerche (rlerche)
Date: 2011-01-08 05:15

Message:
oops ... nope, it seems to be unable to find "scintilla.py".

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Comment By: Robert Lerche (rlerche)
Date: 2011-01-08 04:59

Message:
Aha!  There's a bug in
c:/pywin32-214/pythonwin/Scintilla/makefile_pythonwin: line 49 has 4 spaces
instead of a tab before the "type" command (nmake is like Unix make,
requires a tab).


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