[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-1243330 ] Cant find an installed platform SDK

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Bugs item #1243330, was opened at 2005-07-23 07:09
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>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Out of Date
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Arioch (thomasjeffrey)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Cant find an installed platform SDK

Initial Comment:
I'm trying to install the pywin32 extension and keep 
getting the following error whenever I try to do it 
" warning-can cant find all and installed form platform 
SDK error: Python was built with version 6 of Visual 
Studio, and extensions need to be built with the same 
version of the compiler, but but it isn't installed."
I successfully installed the platform SDK for Microsoft 
and tried reinstalling the extension I'm still getting the 
same error.

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>Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2006-02-27 23:03

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No word from reporter, and works for everyone else

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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2005-07-27 08:48

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You need both a compiler (VC6 for Python 2.3 and earlier,
VC7 for later) and the platform SDK to build these
extensions from source-code.  However, it isn't clear that
you actually need to build from source code - is there a
reason you can't use the pre-built binaries?

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Comment By: Arioch (thomasjeffrey)
Date: 2005-07-27 01:54

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Does this mean actually have to have Microsoft Visual Studio 
6 installed?  I just installed the Microsoft software 
development kit available online, as I assumed that's what 
the prerequisites were. if you are saying they actually need 
visual C. version 6 and I will go and see if I can locate it
thanks for your assistance so far

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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2005-07-25 08:21

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This error sounds like it is MSVC6 itself that can not be
located.  If you recently installed it, you must start the
MSVC6 dev environment before it will be found by distutils.

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