New submission from David Schnur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This is my first time submitting an issue; sorry if I am doing this wrong. While attempting to build/install PyOpenSSL on Windows / MSVC, the mt.exe step failed because it could not find the manifest file that it was attempting to embed in crypto.pyd. The problem was that link.exe was not creating the manifest.
The reason why is that distutils only passes link.exe the /MANIFESTFILE:filename parameter. This tells it where to output the manifest, but not to actually create the manifest (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fft52235(VS.80).aspx). You'd think link could figure out that, if you use /MANIFESTFILE, you want a manifest, but I guess not ;) My solution was to add this line to distutils/msvc9compiler.py: ld_args.append('/MANIFEST') Right beneath the existing line: ld_args.append('/MANIFESTFILE:' + temp_manifest) Hope that helps ---------- components: Distutils messages: 76424 nosy: dschnur severity: normal status: open title: Distutils MSVC doesn't create manifest file (with fix) type: behavior versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4431> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
