distutils bdist_wininst failure on Linux

[jmfauth]

On 23 fév, 15:06, Steven D'Aprano <steve
+comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Following instructions here:
>
> http://docs.python.org/py3k/distutils/builtdist.html#creating-windows...
>
> I am trying to create a Windows installer for a pure-module distribution
> using Python 3.2. I get a "LookupError: unknown encoding: mbcs"
>
> Here is the full output of distutils and the traceback:
>
> [steve at ando pyprimes]$ python3.2 setup.py bdist_wininst
> running bdist_wininst
> running build
> running build_py
> creating build/lib
> copying src/pyprimes.py -> build/lib
> installing to build/bdist.linux-i686/wininst
> running install_lib
> creating build/bdist.linux-i686/wininst
> creating build/bdist.linux-i686/wininst/PURELIB
> copying build/lib/pyprimes.py -> build/bdist.linux-i686/wininst/PURELIB
> running install_egg_info
> Writing build/bdist.linux-i686/wininst/PURELIB/pyprimes-0.1.1a-py3.2.egg-info
> creating '/tmp/tmp3utw4_.zip' and adding '.' to it
> adding 'PURELIB/pyprimes.py'
> adding 'PURELIB/pyprimes-0.1.1a-py3.2.egg-info'
> creating dist
> Warning: Can't read registry to find the necessary compiler setting
> Make sure that Python modules winreg, win32api or win32con are installed.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 60, in <module>
>     "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
>     dist.run_commands()
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/dist.py", line 917, in run_commands
>     self.run_command(cmd)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/dist.py", line 936, in run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py", line 179, in run
>     self.create_exe(arcname, fullname, self.bitmap)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py", line 262, in create_exe
>     cfgdata = cfgdata.encode("mbcs")
> LookupError: unknown encoding: mbcs
>
> How do I fix this, and is it a bug in distutils?
>
> --
> Steven

Because the 'mbcs' codec is missing in your Linux, :-)

>>> 'abc需'.encode('cp1252')
b'abc\xe9\x9c\x80'
>>> 'abc需'.encode('missing')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<eta last command>", line 1, in <module>
LookupError: unknown encoding: missing

jmf