32 bit bdist_wininst vs x64 platform

[Mark Hammond]

Hi Robin,

On 9/09/2010 9:28 PM, Robin Becker wrote:
> A reportlab user is using 32 bit python on x64 win 2003. he has a
> problem installing our bdist_wininst exe because the installer cannot
> find python.

That should work fine - lots of pywin32 users do exactly that.

> Apparently the installer is looking at HKLM\Software to locate python,
> but on x64 32 bit program requests get redirected to
> HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node (Extended explanation in KB article 896459).
>
> Is this fixable by me making a local patch to my distutils to check for
> the real platform and modifying the RegOpenKeyEx call? Or is there some
> distutils magic that I'm missing?

As you mention, 32bit apps querying the registry get redirected in some 
cases - but so long as the 32bit bdist_wininst stub is used, that too 
will get redirected, so it should all work out fine.  Is it possible 
they are attempting to install an x64 version of reportlab on a 32bit 
python?

Mark