Re: I've built Python, but can't figure out how to package it for windows

2010-02-11 Thread Tim Golden
On 11/02/2010 05:24, Mark Jones wrote: [... problems building from tools/msi ...] I sympathise. I went through similar hoops last year, merely to be able to do it. I think I'm right in saying that very few people are bothered enough to package their own MSI on windows because the (probably very f

Re: I've built Python, but can't figure out how to package it for windows

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Jones
Turns out there is an tools/msi directory and in there is python code to help build the MSI from the tree you built. Only problem is you can't use it without having python and PythonWin installed. So I grabbed 2.6.4 python and pythonwin and installed them. It uses COM objects and the CabSDK from M

Re: I've built Python, but can't figure out how to package it for windows

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Jones
That was so simple, thanks. I scanned all the folders for inst, install, setup, but since msi was the expected output extension, I didn't see that! On Feb 9, 6:14 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: > En Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:55:30 -0300, Mark Jones   > escribió: > > > Python 2.6.4 is built, and I fou

Re: I've built Python, but can't figure out how to package it for windows

2010-02-09 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:55:30 -0300, Mark Jones escribió: Python 2.6.4 is built, and I found a bdist_wininst project and wininst-8 project. How do I manage to build the msi for this thing? See the Tools\msi directory; and look for some posts last year from Tim Golden regarding some issues

I've built Python, but can't figure out how to package it for windows

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Jones
Python 2.6.4 is built, and I found a bdist_wininst project and wininst-8 project. How do I manage to build the msi for this thing? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list