[Distutils] window 64bit madness

[Adam GROSZER]

On 03/16/2011 12:09 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> Out of curiosity, how does pip handle this?

Not much better.

http://paste.lisp.org/+2KZE/2

and "pip install reportlab==2.5" fails with the usual "no vcvarsall" 
found -- no C compiler.

>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:28, Adam GROSZER<agroszer at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 03/14/2011 07:50 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
>>>
>>> At 03:40 PM 3/14/2011 +0100, Adam GROSZER wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Having problems here installing
>>>>
>>>> http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/r/reportlab/reportlab-2.5.win-amd64-py2.6.exe
>>>> . Neither setuptools 0.6c11 nor distribute 0.6.14 gets it right.
>>>>
>>>> We don't have and don't want to have a compiler on the server, so we
>>>> need rely on binary packages.
>>>>
>>>> - setuptools just fails miserably even with easy_install:
>>>> http://paste.lisp.org/+2KZD
>>>> - distribute installs it (tho in a ...-win32.egg folder):
>>>> http://paste.lisp.org/+2KZE
>>>> - zc.buildout cannot install it with distribute, because it wants to
>>>> use the source tarball (and we don't have a compiler) or when I make
>>>> it not to be able to see the tarball, it does not find the
>>>> reportlab-2.5.win-amd64-py2.6.exe. I guess it does not get the
>>>> platform right.
>>>>
>>>> Any hints?
>>>
>>> Run "python -c 'import pkg_resources;print
>>> pkg_resources.get_build_platform()'" (with the Python interpreter you're
>>> using.
>>
>> D:\install>c:\Python26_64\python.exe
>> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:13:38) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]
>> on win32
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> import pkg_resources;print pkg_resources.get_build_platform()
>> win-amd64
>>>>>
>>
>>> (By the way, I think from the log you gave, that reportlab may in fact
>>> be installed and usable on your machine, despite the attempt to download
>>> it a second time and build it from source. But I could be wrong.)
>>>
>>
>> Might be, but zc.buildout errs out if it detects an error by the underlying
>> installer. And I *want* to have reportlab installed by zc.buildout.
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>   Adam GROSZER
>> --
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>> Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
>> - George Eliot
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