[Distutils] bdist_wininst build and ez_setup.py

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:35 PM 12/26/2007 +0100, Matias Surdi wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Im building a binary distribution on linux for my project with:
>
># python setup.py bdist_wininst
>
>
>The .exe installer is generated correctly, and runs perfect on the
>windows xp host, but the problem is that, as this host doesn't have
>already setuptools installed, it gives an error when running one of the
>scripts complaining about missing dependencies (pkg_resources, for example).
>
>I wonder if, for bdist_wininst builds is there a way to do an
>auto-installation of setuptools.

You could create a post-install script for the bdist_wininst 
installer.  See the distutils documentation for more details.