Hi Robin, On 9/09/2010 9:28 PM, Robin Becker wrote:
A reportlab user is using 32 bit python on x64 win 2003. he has a problem installing our bdist_wininst exe because the installer cannot find python.
That should work fine - lots of pywin32 users do exactly that.
Apparently the installer is looking at HKLM\Software to locate python, but on x64 32 bit program requests get redirected to HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node (Extended explanation in KB article 896459). Is this fixable by me making a local patch to my distutils to check for the real platform and modifying the RegOpenKeyEx call? Or is there some distutils magic that I'm missing?
As you mention, 32bit apps querying the registry get redirected in some cases - but so long as the 32bit bdist_wininst stub is used, that too will get redirected, so it should all work out fine. Is it possible they are attempting to install an x64 version of reportlab on a 32bit python?
Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
