I just tried to download and run the python2.5 0.6c11 setuptools and I get a message that there is no record of python in the registry and the install cannot proceed. Annoyingly there are two empty text boxes that look like one might be able to type a path in but they are disabled. This is on Windows 7 x64, I'm wondering if the binary is looking into the 32 bit registry? The standard HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.5 entries are all there (in the 64 bit registry) Any ideas how to proceed? Cheers, - James
On 29/05/2011 9:42 AM, James wrote:
I just tried to download and run the python2.5 0.6c11 setuptools and I get a message that there is no record of python in the registry and the install cannot proceed. Annoyingly there are two empty text boxes that look like one might be able to type a path in but they are disabled.
This is on Windows 7 x64, I'm wondering if the binary is looking into the 32 bit registry?
A 32-bit binary will be looking in the 32bit registry, as intended. Assuming you don't have a 64bit Python 2.5, then your registry entries should also be in the 32bit registry. If you have grabbed the 64bit version of Python 2.5, then you are unlikely to find a corresponding 64bit installer for setuptools as making 64bit extensions with 2.5 was incredibly painful - you might be better off looking at 2.6... HTH, Mark
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond@gmail.com>wrote:
On 29/05/2011 9:42 AM, James wrote:
I just tried to download and run the python2.5 0.6c11 setuptools and I get a message that there is no record of python in the registry and the install cannot proceed.
A 32-bit binary will be looking in the 32bit registry, as intended. Assuming you don't have a 64bit Python 2.5, then your registry entries should also be in the 32bit registry. If you have grabbed the 64bit version of Python 2.5, then you are unlikely to find a corresponding 64bit installer for setuptools as making 64bit extensions with 2.5 was incredibly painful - you might be better off looking at 2.6...
HTH,
Mark
Maybe I was taking the "easy" part a little too literal for my own good ;) I thought, wow, that's cool, someone went to the trouble of making one installer for both 32 and 64 bit. Not that I understand (or want to) what the installer does but it seemed plausible at the time. I arrived here http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#id8 from the sphinx page, there seems to be only a link to one (presumably 32 bit only) installer for each 2.x python :( Spelunking around in http://pypi.python.org/packages/ <http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/> didn't get me anywhere either (looking in the 2.6 or 2.7 dirs) Didn't see any "not-so-easy how to build/install this on x64" notes either. Can someone point me to that if there is such a thing? If there is no such thing can someone please let me out of my misery? thanks, - James
On 05/31/2011 08:21 AM, James wrote:
Didn't see any "not-so-easy how to build/install this on x64" notes either. Can someone point me to that if there is such a thing? If there is no such thing can someone please let me out of my misery?
Download the source setuptools-0.6c11.tar.gz, extract it, run python setup.py install where python is your 64bit python. -- Best regards, Adam GROSZER -- Quote of the day: Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. - George Elliot
At 11:21 PM 5/30/2011 -0700, James wrote:
Didn't see any "not-so-easy how to build/install this on x64" notes either. Can someone point me to that if there is such a thing? If there is no such thing can someone please let me out of my misery?
I've updated the PyPI page to note the problem prominently under the Windows instructions, and included a workaround. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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