[python-win32] Compiling Python as a static .exe

[Russell Wallace]

Ah, that works now, thanks! That gets me an executable, which if run from
within the Python-2.7.6 directory so it can find Lib/*.py, gives the
following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".\lib\site.py", line 548, in <module>
    main()
  File ".\lib\site.py", line 537, in main
    aliasmbcs()
  File ".\lib\site.py", line 467, in aliasmbcs
    if enc.startswith('cp'):            # "cp***" ?
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'

The relevant section of site.py is:

    if sys.platform == 'win32':
        import locale, codecs
        enc = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
        if enc.startswith('cp'):            # "cp***" ?
            try:
                codecs.lookup(enc)
            except LookupError:
                import encodings
                encodings._cache[enc] = encodings._unknown
                encodings.aliases.aliases[enc] = 'mbcs'

so it looks like getdefaultlocale is returning blanks. A Google search
suggests it sometimes does this for various reasons; I'm not sure how to
reconcile that with site.py expecting such to never happen, or why it works
in the default DLL build. Any ideas?


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Jeremy Kloth <jeremy.kloth at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Russell Wallace
> <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The '...' is the long list of source files I got from pythoncore.vcproj,
> > plus getbuildinfo.c, and the required include directives. You would
> think a
> > missing main function would be the explanation, but the absence of a
> leading
> > _ in the error message is a key indicator. To make sure, I tried adding a
> > main function by hand, and also wmain just in case, and the error still
> > occurs.
>
> The list of files also needs "..\Modules\python.c" to create an
> executable.  (tested with VS2008 for x64).
>
> That lack of leading underscore comes from how symbols are exported in
> 64-bit PEs vs. 32-bit PEs.  That is, 64-bit PEs do not prepend an
> underscore to exported symbols.
>
> --
> Jeremy Kloth
>
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