[python-win32] Registering COM servers doesn't work out of the box any more

[mc@mclaveau]

Hi!

When you had installed Python, had you choose "Add to path" (at end of 
list of install's options)?

(sorry for my bad english)

@-salutations
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install's

Le 27/07/2017 à 01:31, Greg Ewing a écrit :
> I recently tried to install a COM server written in Python and
> ran into a small problem. The procedure I used was this:
>
> 1. Install Python 3 using the standard Windows installer, as
> Administrator, for All Users, adding Python to the path.
>
> 2. pip install pypiwin32
>
> 3. Run my script for registering the COM server, which
> calls win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine.
>
> This didn't work, and the reason turned out to be that the
> InprocServer32 registry was just the filename of the dll,
> rather than a full pathname. When I changed it to an
> absolute pathname, the server worked fine.
>
> The standard win32com code for server registration seems to
> be assuming that pythoncom.dll and winctypes.dll have been
> installed in C:\Windows\System32. However, pip doesn't
> put them there, and I get the impression that installing
> all DLLs there is no longer considered best practice.
>
> I found an old sourceforge bug report about this:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/pywin32/bugs/393/
>
> which suggests a one-line change to win32com\server\register.py
> to address this problem, but it was closed with works-for-me.
>
> Am I right that using a relative pathname for InprocServer32 is
> no longer the right thing to do? Should I reopen this issue?
>


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