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color:#1F497D'>It looks like a bug to me &#8211; but for some reason I don&#8217;t hit it. 
Last I checked, the x64 version of pywin32 builds fine following the
instructions at the top of setup.py (but last I tried, it was cross-compiling
from a 32bit environment)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'>Mark <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
python-win32-bounces@python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Marc-André Belzile<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 7 March 2008 2:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> python-win32@python.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [python-win32] Building pywin32 on Vista 64<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:maroon'>Looks like MSVCCompiler&nbsp;hasn't been fixed yet to support
AMD64 architectures. __root is referenced by get_msvc_paths but wasn't set in
__init__.</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:maroon'>Known bug ?</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:maroon'>My current settings:</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:maroon'>self.__product&nbsp;-&gt; Microsoft SDK compiler 14.0<br>
self.__version&nbsp;-&gt; 8.0<br>
self.__arch&nbsp;-&gt; AMD64</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:maroon'>class MSVCCompiler (CCompiler) :</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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color:maroon'>...</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:maroon'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; def __init__ (self, verbose=0, dry_run=0,
force=0):<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CCompiler.__init__ (self, verbose,
dry_run, force)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; self.__version = get_build_version()<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; self.__arch =
get_build_architecture()<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if self.__arch == &quot;Intel&quot;:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; # x86<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if
self.__version &gt;= 7:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
self.__root = r&quot;Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio&quot;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
self.__macros = MacroExpander(self.__version)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; else:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
self.__root = r&quot;Software\Microsoft\Devstudio&quot;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
self.__product = &quot;Visual Studio version %s&quot; % self.__version<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; else:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; # Win64.
Assume this was built with the platform SDK<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
self.__product = &quot;Microsoft SDK compiler %s&quot; % (self.__version + 6)</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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color:maroon'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; def get_msvc_paths(self, path,
platform='x86'):<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;&quot;&quot;Get a list of
devstudio directories (include, lib or path).</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:maroon'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Return a list of
strings.&nbsp; The list will be empty if unable to<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; access the registry or appropriate
registry keys not found.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;&quot;&quot;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:maroon'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if not _can_read_reg:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; return []</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:maroon'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
path = path + &quot; dirs&quot;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if self.__version &gt;= 7:<br>
<strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
key = (r&quot;%s\%0.1f\VC\VC_OBJECTS_PLATFORM_INFO\Win32\Directories&quot;</span></strong><b><br>
<strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
% (self.__root,
self.__version))&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;&lt;
line 616</span></strong></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> python-win32-bounces@python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Marc-André Belzile<br>
<b>Sent:</b> March 5, 2008 6:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> python-win32@python.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [python-win32] Building pywin32 on Vista 64</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hello,</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I'm&nbsp;trying
to build pywin32 (2.5.210.0) on Vista 64 (AMD64)&nbsp;with VS 2005.</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I'm
stucked right at the beginning of the process with this error :</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>File
&quot;C:\Python25\lib\distutils\msvccompiler.py&quot;, line 616, in
get_msvc_paths % (self.__root, self.__version))<br>
AttributeError: my_compiler instance has no attribute '_MSVCCompiler__root'</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
did install the windows server 2003 platform SDK (AMD64) and set </span>both
DISTUTILS_USE_SDK +&nbsp;<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span>MSSdk
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>as advertised.
Still no succcess.</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Any
ideas what could go wrong ? </span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank
you</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-mab</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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