[python-win32] MSI installer or zip file for pywin32?

[Preston Landers]

You can run unzip on the official exe installer to get a directory structure
that you can copy into your build. The pywin32_postinstall.py stuff is
separated out in the arhcive, and does need to be run to enable all
features.  Depending on what you're doing you might be able to skip all or
most of it.  As far as the system DLLs, last time I checked they do have to
be in the system32 directory (or the wow64 version.)  But I could be wrong -
I didn't play with that very much. If it works without installing system
DLLs I'd be curious to know.

regards,
-Preston

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

> Howdy, all.  I'm writing a build script for UpLib on Windows with msys,
> and I'd like to find some way of installing the Python win32 extensions
> without running the old-style installer it currently comes with.
> Ideally, I'd like to just unpack the code and DLLs in my install
> directory, for later installation by my UpLib MSI installer.  Is there
> any easy way to create such a simple package -- an MSI installer, or
> perhaps a tar or zip file?  I'm working with Python 2.6 and MinGW/msys
> on Windows XP.
>
> Looking through pywin32_postinstall.py, I don't think I'll need most of
> it -- my python is captive under the UpLib directory, and only used by
> UpLib.  I'd prefer not to install the pywin32 dlls in the
> C:\Windows\SYSTEM32 folder if possible; I'll just put them with the
> other UpLib DLLs.  I won't need "fixup_dbi()".  No shortcuts.
>
> Bill
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