[python-win32] Need help creating a wheel of pywin32

[Roger Upole]

Can you try building from a Mercurial checkout ?  Looks like some
files aren't being included in the source dist download.
Appears that our Manifest.in needs to be updated, as there are also
a few other things missing.

    Roger

"Vye" <vye at vye.me> wrote in message news:CAByYAs+du_icYJFzET0dFk0t2HzwayHc_NdwkmLpwdMOH+1xMg at mail.gmail.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have some Python programs running on Windows that require pywin32 to
> be installed. I want to leverage our CI environment to automatically
> test and freeze them for me. Our CI uses tox so I need to be able to
> install pywin32 using pip. I've never built a python package before
> but after some reading it seems like wheel is the way to go,
> especially on Windows if you want to avoid compiling each time (and I
> do).
>
> Here's where I get stuck. The PUG relies heavily on being able to
> install something with pip in order to create your wheel. I've never
> been able to install pywin32 via pip (no idea why it isn't up
> there--even if I did need to compile it).
>
> Is there a way I can create a wheel by using the prebuilt binaries
> since they are just zip archives? I would prefer to do it this way.
>
> if not...
>
> I tried to compile pywin32 so I could build a wheel by running python
> setup3.py bdist_wheel. However, I can't seem to get 216-218 to
> compile. I'm using Python 3.3.5rc1 64-bit on W7.
>
> Attempt #1 (pywin32-218):
> 1. set MSSDK="C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1"
> 2. python setup3.py build --plat-name=win-amd64
>
> I got this error: win32\src\perfmon\perfmondata.cpp(11) : fatal error
> C1083: Cannot open include file: 'perfutil.h': No such file or
> directory
> error: command '"c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0\VC\BIN\amd64\cl.exe"' failed with exit status 2
>
> The entire output has been saved here: http://goo.gl/GqVs6h
>
> This seems to be exactly what this open ticket is about:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/pywin32/bugs/647/ and this user also reported
> it: http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-win32/12627/
>
> Note: The only thing that looks suspect to me is v6.0A and v7.0A x86
> SDK paths when it seems it should be using 7.1 per my MSSDK variable.
> But as far as I can tell perfutil.h is not part of those SDKs. I was
> only able to find it in previous releases (217) of pywin32.
>
> Attempt #2 (pywin32-217):
> 1. set MSSDK="C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1"
> 2. python setup3.py build --plat-name=win-amd64
>
> I got this error: Building pywin32 3.3.217.0
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "setup3.py", line 16, in <module>
>    exec(str(got))
>  File "<string>", line 2428, in <module>
>  File "<string>", line 2224, in convert_data_files
> RuntimeError: No files match 'pythonwin\pywin\*.cfg'
>
> There are two .cfg files in pywin: default.cfg IDLE.cfg
>
> Attempt #3 (pywin32-216):
> same results as #2.
>
> While I am extremely thankful someone wrote pywin32, it is a monster
> to build. That, and my lack of package building experience doesn't
> help. I would appreciate some help building a wheel of pywin32 very
> much!
>
> -- 
> -Vye