Building Outlook Plug-in From Source - Something Missing?
I have been trying to build SpamBayes OL2K plugin from source by running in Outlook2000/installer/crank.py. I had to hard-code the directory in, and get the latest CVS copy of spambayes_addin.spec (not included in the source distrib). The script runs build.py OK, builds a spambayes_addin.dll, but then coughs on looking for gencache.dat. It looks like there needs to be a Outlook2000/installer/dist/support/gen_py directory when I'm done, but there is none there. Everything else under dist looks fine - /images, /doc, and all the python DLL's and so forth are there. Looking over everything, it seems that makepy must generate COM object wrappers that go here, but this is not being done. Vitals: WinXP, Python 2.2.3, McMillan Installer 5b5_5, win32all-156, Outlook 2000 installed on the build box.
I have been trying to build SpamBayes OL2K plugin from source by running in Outlook2000/installer/crank.py. I had to hard-code the directory in, and get the latest CVS copy of spambayes_addin.spec (not included in the source distrib). The script runs build.py OK, builds a spambayes_addin.dll, but then coughs on looking for gencache.dat.
You will need to use the modified Installer at http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/spambayes However, I suggest you don't bother :) The next version is almost certain to be released using "py2exe", and will include binaries for the Outlook addin + the pop3proxy application. See the file "windows\py2exe\README.txt" - this has very basic instructions. Feel free to mail me directly if you get stuck. Mark.
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