[issue6807] No such file or directory: 'msisupport.dll' in msi.py

[pds]

New submission from pds <pirdirsir at gmail.com>:

Investigating the issue #6716 I reported earlier, I've been trying to
build Windows MSI installer package of Python 3.1 on my own.
I checked out the svn source, built things with Visual C++ 2008 Express
Edition, and tried to make MSI package in Tools\msi directory.
When I run Tools\msi\msi.py in Tools\msi directory, the following error
occurs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "msi.py", line 178, in <module>
    if msilib.pe_type(dll_path) != msilib.pe_type("msisupport.dll"):
  File "E:\python31svnbuild\Tools\msi\msilib.py", line 665, in pe_type
    header = open(path, "rb").read(1000)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'msisupport.dll'

It seems that msilib.pe_type("msisupport.dll") is called before
msisupport.dll is created.
I read msi.py and learned that msilib.pe_type("msisupport.dll") (line
178) is executed before os.system("nmake /nologo /c /f msisupport.mak")
(line 372) is executed in add_ui(), which is called at line 1299.
So I made a patch to make msi.py to see if the file "msisupport.dll"
exists, and if it does, check if the dll is for the correct architecture.

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components: Installation
files: patch.txt
messages: 92086
nosy: pds
severity: normal
status: open
title: No such file or directory: 'msisupport.dll' in msi.py
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.1
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14806/patch.txt

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