To Python Windows Release Managers: My name is Jianfeng Mao and I am a software developer at the U2 group in Rocket Software (http://u2.rocketsoftware.com/). I am currently working on a project to embed a slightly customized Python interpreter in our product. For easy installation and setup, we hope to be able to do the standard Python installation during the installation of our software. Basically I want to create a .msi file that can be called to install the full Python if the user needs this new feature. Brian Curtin (br...@python.org<mailto:br...@python.org>) pointed me to Tools/msi/msi.py for the Windows MSI builder. I tried to follow the instructions in the README but couldn't make it to work after a few twists and turns. Brian mentioned that few people needs to do this and only release managers handle the packaging of Python. I have listed the steps I have done in my attempt to create the .msi file. Please let me know if I have missed anything or done anything wrong.
1. hg clone http://hg.python.org/cpython 2. cd cpython 3. hg update 3.3 4. cd tools\buildbot, edit build.bat to change the configuration from Debug to Releaes; edit external.bat, change DEBUG=1 to DEBUG=0 5. go back to cpython\ and run tools\buildbot\build.bat 6. cd PC, then do 'nmake -f icons.mak' 7. cd ..\tools\msi 8. c:\python27\python msi.py WARNING: nm did not run successfully - libpythonXX.a not built cl /O2 /D WIN32 /D NDEBUG /D _WINDOWS /MT /W3 /c msisupport.c Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.40219.01 for 80x86 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. msisupport.c link.exe /OUT:msisupport.dll /INCREMENTAL:NO /NOLOGO /DLL /SUBSYSTEM:WIN DOWS /OPT:REF /OPT:ICF msisupport.obj msi.lib kernel32.lib Creating library msisupport.lib and object msisupport.exp Traceback (most recent call last): File "msi.py", line 1336, in <module> add_files(db) File "msi.py", line 961, in add_files generate_license() File "msi.py", line 914, in generate_license raise ValueError, "Could not find "+srcdir+"/../"+pat ValueError: Could not find C:\temp\cpython/../tcl8*
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