[python-win32] pywin32 installer problems with Python 2.6

[Patrick Hartling]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:

>> I am using Visual C++ 9.0 to build pywin32, and Dependency Walker  
>> shows
>> that the pyhon.exe from the 2.6 snapshot is linked against the Visual
>> C++ 9.0 runtime.
>
> Ahh - sorry, I missed that you are building pywin32 yourself.
>
>> The installer that you provided crashes for me in the same way.
>> Perhaps it's a bug in Python or something wrong with my machine?  
>> Other
>> installers that I have made today for Python 2.6 have succeeded. Very
>> curious.
>
> Yes, strange.  The creation of the .pyc files is done by the  
> installer exe
> and it will be *that* runtime which is of interest - but depends  
> shows the
> installer exe links against msvcr90.dll which is what we want.  I'm
> surprised a version you build yourself does that though, as I don't  
> believe
> the skeleton executable has been updated in the python core yet.  That
> installer binary works for me (at least, it doesn't crash - but it  
> does give
> a useless error message at the end ("*** run_installscript: internal  
> error
> 0xFFFFFFFF ***").  *sob*
>
> IIRC, building python and pywin32 from source - even the release  
> versions -
> should give .pdb files which are useful for debugging.  Have you tried
> breaking into the process using the debugger?


Yes, and it showed the crash happening in a call to realloc(). The  
call stack seemed oddly short, so I may have been looking at the wrong  
thread or something like that. I did not give it a lot of attention at  
the time, but I can look into it more tomorrow (in about 14 hours).  
Thanks for the feedback.

  -Patrick


--
Patrick L. Hartling
Senior Software Engineer, Priority 5
http://www.priority5.com/

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: PGP.sig
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 186 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/attachments/20080228/3c87e023/attachment.pgp