Kosta wrote:
I am a Python newbie, tasked with automating (researching) building
Windows drivers using the WDK build environment. I've been looking
into Python for this (instead of writing a bunch of batch files).
What I would like to do, is to open a cmd window, and start a Python
script. This script would then (based upon input arguments), build
different flavors of the driver (fre, chk, x86, x64) and do some post
processing (create cat files, sign, etc.).
I was hoping to take advantage as much as possible of exisiting
infrastructure from the WDK. I am able to call setenv.bat and provide
all the input parameters. One of the things setenv.bat does is change
the path environment variable. However, this is not captured by
Python. I could duplicate the functionality, but I'd rather not. Is
there a way to capture all enviroment variable changes being made by a
batch file from Python?
Thanks!
An excellent question. It's been a few years, but last time I remember
looking, setenv.bat only changed environment variables, and didn't
change current directory, or run any external programs.. If that's
still true, I figure you have three options.
I don't know of any way to capture them explicitly. So here are the
three choices I can come up with:
1) have the first python program invoke a new shell which runs setenv,
then runs another python program. This second python program would be
where all the work is done, invoking compilers, linkers etc. So the
first python program invokes a batch file which looks something like:
call setenv.bat arg1
python second.py arg2 arg3 arg4 arg5
This batch file could even be generated on the fly, just to simplify
complex argument passing.
2) Have the python program invoke a batch file something like the
following, and then analyze the resulting text file
call setenv.bat arg1
set > tempfile.txt
The contents of that tempfile could then be loaded into a dict similar
to the usual environment. Now the Python script can continue, and just
use these environment variable instead of the original set
3) Have the python program parse the setenv.bat instead of running it.
There was a post on this newsgroup announcing pyKook. It's still in
early form, but you might get ideas from it. I haven't looked, I just
pasted the announcement to look at later.
+ I have released pyKook 0.0.2.
+ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Kook/0.0.2
+ http://www.kuwata-lab.com/kook/
+ http://www.kuwata-lab.com/kook/pykook-users-guide.html
Other possibilities:
+ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/vellum/ flexible small 'make'
alternative
+ http://code.google.com/p/waf/
+ http://code.google.com/p/fabricate/
DaveA
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