<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you all, this gives me what I need. Sorry I missed the source in the the PC/ directory.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Van<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:41 AM Zachary Ware <<a href="mailto:zachary.ware%2Bpydev@gmail.com">zachary.ware+pydev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:09 AM VanL <<a href="mailto:van.lindberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">van.lindberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> I am looking into an issue associated with the wininst-*.exe files in the distutils/command subdirectory. It looks like these are the executable stubs used to create self-extracting zips for installation - but I am not 100% sure. It also looks like they include the calls to standard Windows functions to display the installer window.<br>
><br>
> I have a couple questions I need help with:<br>
> 1) Am I correct about the function, and if not, what are they?<br>
<br>
You are correct. IIUC, they are checked in to allow creating those<br>
installers from non-Windows platforms.<br>
<br>
> 2) Where did these come from, and where is their source code?<br>
<br>
Source can be found here:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/master/PC/bdist_wininst" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/master/PC/bdist_wininst</a><br>
<br>
The individual checked-in .exe files were each originally built by<br>
whoever updated the Windows toolchain to a new version of MSVC<br>
(Christian Heimes, Brian Curtin, or Steve Dower; though the oldest<br>
ones were added by Thomas Heller, presumably using whatever the<br>
current toolchain(s) was (were) at the time). A few of them have been<br>
rebuilt after bug fixes in the source since they were added, mostly by<br>
the same people, though I also see Mark Hammond and Raymond Hettinger<br>
in the history (and Georg Brandl via svnmerge). I notice that there<br>
are a few very minor code cleanups (the three latest commits here<br>
<a href="https://github.com/python/cpython/commits/master/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/python/cpython/commits/master/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c</a>)<br>
that have not made it into a rebuilt exe yet.<br>
<br>
FTR, we really ought to remove all but the 14.0 version from the<br>
master branch. We don't support building Python with any toolchain<br>
older than 14.0 anymore, and the older toolchains are nigh impossible<br>
to find anymore anyway.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Zach<br>
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