On Thursday 17 July 2003 11:28 pm, Graham Fawcett wrote:
> Jason Sibre wrote:
> >>On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:08:14PM -0400, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> >>>When I run setup.py install on Windows, I get an error that
> >>> cl.exe cannot be found.  (cl.exe is the name of the windows C
> >>> compiler.)
> >>
> >>You need to comment out the line:
> >>
> >>    kw['ext_modules'].append(htmltext)
> >>
> >>in setup.py.  Perhaps we should change it so the default it to
> >> not compile _c_htmltext on Windows.

> I suggested such a patch to setup.py some time ago
[snip interesting comments on ming compiler]

> try:
>      core.setup(**kw)
>
> except SystemExit, errmsg:

[rest of patch snipped]

Distutils should be fixed so it doesn't try to compile if it can't
find a executable.

Note that the Quixote setup.py would probably fail on a gx server
where the admin has removed the C compiler for security reasons.

There's already code that does the heavy lifting of trying to locate
the compiler; for example, see python2.2/disutils/msvccompiler.py,
find_exe method.

Regards,

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