RE: [pywin32-checkins] pywin32 setup_win32all_core.py,1.5,1.6

[Mark H. <mha...@sk...>]

> Modified Files:
> 	setup_win32all_core.py
> Log Message:
> There is a chance for distutils, even in the win32all build process!
> This encourages me to further work on this script.

Yeah, me too :)  I've a couple of pending trivial changes - at least that
proves I'm serious ;)

> The specialized code for pywintypes and pythoncom should be clearer
> now, at least to me.  Unfortunately, I broke mingw32 support.
>
> But even before this, I get compilation errors with mingw. An example:
>   win32/src/PyACL.cpp: In function `BOOL _ReorderACL(_ACL*)':
>   win32/src/PyACL.cpp:89: `ACCESS_DENIED_OBJECT_ACE_TYPE'
> undeclared (first use
>      this function)
>   win32/src/PyACL.cpp:89: (Each undeclared identifier is
> reported only once for
>      each function it appears in.)
>   error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

I've been making lots of changes for that mainwin toolkit recently, and
didn't strike that one.

>
> If someone tells me how this can be fixed I'll happy to also bring
> this up to date for mingw.

A quick grep shows:

WinNT.h:#define ACCESS_DENIED_OBJECT_ACE_TYPE           (0x6)

So I suggest a simple:
#ifndef .... // mingw
#define ....

If nothing else pops up.  I should install mingw, but it is worth noting
that we already require some unknown semi-recent version of the "platform
sdk" rather than a vanilla MSVC6.  However, Roger Upole did most of recent
the security stuff, but also himself struck a "platform sdk" version problem
trying to build the recent shell changes, so it seems unlikely it is simply
that.  So buggered if I know :)

> swig is now supported (.i sources are parsed out of the dsp files),
> and I can at least build
>   pywintypes, win32api, win32file, win32event, pythoncom.
>
> Whether they work or not - I cannot currently tell.

Woo hoo - check it in :)

> install_lib does no longer work, requires rethought:
> Some files should be installed in the normal way, others go
> into sysdir.

No worries - feel free to just hack away on this!

And while I am writing a mail - should I check in the "dicts.dat" change to
py2exe?  For some reason, the hacks etc and bother I went to, to make it
work in the first place, bother me enough to want to remove it now!

Thanks,

Mark.