[reportlab-users] reportlab fail installing on Windows 7 x64 with Python 2.6 x64 (easy_install)

[Sorin Sbarnea]

I remarked that easy_install reportlab fails with below errror on
Windows 7 x64 with Python 2.6 x64:
Searching for reportlab
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/reportlab/
Reading http://www.reportlab.com/
Best match: reportLab 2.3
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/reportlab/reportLab-2.3.zip#md5=7d98b26fa287a9e4be4d35d682ce64ac
Processing reportLab-2.3.zip
Running ReportLab_2_3\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
c:\temp\easy_install-naj8bw\ReportLab_2_3\egg-dist-tmp-hwrzoo
_rl_accel.c
c:\temp\easy_install-naj8bw\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\rl_accel\_rl_accel.c(136)

: warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'Py_ssize_t' to 'int', possible

loss of data
c:\temp\easy_install-naj8bw\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\rl_accel\_rl_accel.c(433)

: warning C4244: '=' : conversion from '__int64' to 'unsigned int',

possible loss of data
c:\temp\easy_install-naj8bw\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\rl_accel\_rl_accel.c(512)

: warning C4267: '=' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'int', possible

loss of data
c:\temp\easy_install-naj8bw\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\rl_accel\_rl_accel.c(536)

: warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'Py_ssize_t' to 'int', possible

loss of data
c:\temp\easy_install-naj8bw\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\rl_accel\_rl_accel.c(539)

: warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'Py_ssize_t' to 'int', possible

loss of data
c:\temp\easy_install-naj8bw\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\rl_accel\_rl_accel.c(1177)

: warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'Py_ssize_t' to 'int', possible

loss of data
c:\temp\easy_install-naj8bw\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\rl_accel\_rl_accel.c(1199)

: warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'Py_ssize_t' to 'int', possible

loss of data
c:\temp\easy_install-naj8bw\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\rl_accel\_rl_accel.c(1279)

: warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'Py_ssize_t' to 'int', possible

loss of data
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '_renderPM_libart.lib'
################################################
#Attempting install of _rl_accel, sgmlop & pyHnj
#extensions from
'c:\\temp\\easy_install-naj8bw\\ReportLab_2_3\\src\\rl_addons\\rl_accel'
################################################
################################################
#Attempting install of _renderPM
#extensions from
'c:\\temp\\easy_install-naj8bw\\ReportLab_2_3\\src\\rl_addons\\renderPM'
# installing with win32 freetype 'freetype214'
################################################
error: Setup script exited with error: command '"c:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\amd64\link.exe"' failed with
exit status 1181

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