[Tutor] Error installing review board on windows

[Emile van Sebille]

On 5/28/2009 9:51 AM vishwajeet singh said...
> Hi List,
> 
> I am trying to install review board on windows. 

I'm not familiar with review board, but these type of third party 
software installation problems are typically better addressed through 
the support groups for the third party application.

Emile


> It fails saying it could 
> not build PIL 1.1.6 because visual studio was not found on the system 
> and but I have already installed the PIL 1.1.6 using binaries available 
> on the site but review board fails to locate it and every time tries to 
> download the PIL and fails while building the same.
> 
> error shown below
> /error: Setup script exited with error: Python was built with Visual 
> Studio 2003;/
> /extensions must be built with a compiler than can generate compatible 
> binaries.
> Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this system. If you have Cygwin 
> installed,
> you can try compiling with MingW32, by passing "-c mingw32" to setup.py.
> 
> /I tried to build the PIL from source using cygwin but that also failed 
> with following error
> / `_imp___Py_NoneStruct'
> build\temp.win32-2.5\Release\path.o:path.c:(.text+0xa93): undefined 
> reference to
>  `_imp___Py_NoneStruct'
> build\temp.win32-2.5\Release\path.o:path.c:(.text+0xac2): undefined 
> reference to
>  `_imp__PyExc_IndexError'
> build\temp.win32-2.5\Release\path.o:path.c:(.text+0xae5): undefined 
> reference to
>  `_imp__PyExc_TypeError'
> build\temp.win32-2.5\Release\path.o:path.c:(.text+0xd7c): undefined 
> reference to
>  `_imp___Py_NoneStruct'
> build\temp.win32-2.5\Release\path.o:path.c:(.text+0xd84): undefined 
> reference to
>  `_imp___Py_NoneStruct'
> build\temp.win32-2.5\Release\path.o:path.c:(.text+0xe01): undefined 
> reference to
>  `_imp__PyExc_AttributeError'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1/
> 
> Kindly help
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Vishwajeet
> http://www.singhvishwajeet.com
> 
> 
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