[reportlab-users] Pypi package incorrect

[Robin Becker]

On 09/03/2010 16:44, Michael Hipp wrote:

> On 3/9/2010 9:56 AM, Andy Robinson wrote:

>> On 9 March 2010 15:51, Michael Hipp<Michael at hipp.com> wrote:

>>> Would this work for Windows, in lieu of the binary (.exe) installers?

>>> Does

>>> it include the DLLs?

>>

>> I should have said 'untar', not 'unzip'. The zip doesn't include

>> DLLs, which is why we don't put it on PyPI. I think we tried it in

>> January, and easy_install on Windows pulls down the prebuilt .exe

>> files.

>

> I'm on Windows 7 and I just did 'pip install reportlab'.

>

> It scrolled a bunch of stuff and then quit with this:

>

> running build_ext

>

> building '_rl_accel' extension

>

> error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

...

pip is obviously trying to build the extensions from source. Presumably pip 
doesn't know how to check if a compiler is present (or pehaps where it lives), 
maybe it delegates to distutils and that's being dumb.

Have you tried downloading and running 
http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/r/reportlab/reportlab-2.4.win32-py2.6.exe?

I've no idea whether that works on windows 7, but it's an approved way to 
distribute for windows which shouldn't require a compiler to be set up.



> ----------------------------------------

> Command c:\python26\python.exe -c "import setuptools;

> __file__='C:\\dev\\build\\

> reportlab\\setup.py'; execfile('C:\\dev\\build\\reportlab\\setup.py')"

> install -

> -single-version-externally-managed --record

> c:\users\michael\appdata\local\temp\

> pip-pjvgpc-record\install-record.txt --install-headers

> C:\dev\lib\include failed

> with error code 1

> Storing complete log in ./pip-log.txt

>

> If I do 'import reportlab', it says it's not there.

>

> Any thoughts?

>

> Thanks,

> Michael Hipp

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Robin Becker