[python-win32] Compiling win32 extensions

[Mark Hammond]

Oops - my mistake!  Please see pywintypes.h, where you will find a block:

 

// As of Python 2.6, Python switched to 'wchar_t' for unicode.  Some old

// win32 structures that still use 'unsigned short' now fail from C++ with

// VS8 so we provide a couple of helpers.

// XXX - but, when trying to use VC2003 with x64, the SDK x64 compiler

// reports itself as 14.00.40310.41 - so this breaks under that compiler

// Its not clear how to resolve this, but while VS2003 is the default

// compiler, that is what must work.

#if 0 // and _MSC_VER >= 1400

.

 

Sadly, I can't think of anything to test that works in all cases, so you
will need to manually enable that block.  Any ideas regarding what to test
for would be appreciated.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

 

From: MACKEITH Andrew [mailto:Andrew.MACKEITH at 3ds.com] 
Sent: Sunday, 18 November 2007 3:01 PM
To: Mark Hammond; python-win32 at python.org
Subject: RE: [python-win32] Compiling win32 extensions

 

 

 

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From: Mark Hammond [mailto:mhammond at skippinet.com.au] 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 9:12 PM
To: MACKEITH Andrew; python-win32 at python.org
Subject: RE: [python-win32] Compiling win32 extensions

Although VS8 is not officially supported and no official binaries are
released built with that version, you should find the CVS version of pywin32
builds cleanly with VS8, even if you target x64.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark 

 

I downloaded the CVS tree on Nov 9th, and I am building with that. 

 

How does LPCWSTR relate to Py_UNICODE? 

 

win32/src/win32apimodule.cpp(1266) : error C2664: 'GetFileAttributesW' :
cannot convert parameter 1 from 'Py_UNICODE *' to 'LPCWSTR'
 

Andrew 

 

 

From: python-win32-bounces+mhammond=keypoint.com.au at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces+mhammond=keypoint.com.au at python.org] On Behalf
Of MACKEITH Andrew
Sent: Saturday, 10 November 2007 5:58 AM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] Compiling win32 extensions

 

I am compiling the win32 extensions on 32 bit windows using Microsoft Visual
Studio 8 (AKA .Net 2005)

 

I have had some problems with paths, but managed to solve these by manually
adding paths to the registry.

 

(I am puzzled that dsound.h appears in the SDK for ce, but not the regular
SDK.)

 

I am now stumped by these (related) compile errors.

 

win32apimodule.cpp
win32/src/win32apimodule.cpp(1266) : error C2664: 'GetFileAttributesW' :
cannot convert parameter 1 from 'Py_UNICODE *' to 'LPCWSTR'
        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires
reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
win32/src/win32apimodule.cpp(1451) : error C2664:
'PyUnicodeUCS2_FromUnicode' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'wchar_t
[260]' to 'const Py_UNICODE *'
        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires
reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
win32/src/win32apimodule.cpp(1975) : error C2664: 'DWORD
(LPCWSTR,LPWSTR,DWORD)' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'Py_UNICODE *' to
'LPWSTR'
        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires
reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast

 

Are these new errors in Visual Studio 8?

 

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