[python-win32] Using pip to install pywin32

[Preston Landers]

Actually that gist wouldn't help much since it uses pywin32, the thing
we're trying to install. (derp!) There may be another way though.

Possibly related:  http://bugs.python.org/issue20641



On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Preston Landers <planders at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >  I don't think pip can run this script (it even needs admin privs!).
>
> Is there a reason it couldn't run a script that presents a UAC prompt to
> elevate the process?
>
> Something like this:
> https://gist.github.com/Preston-Landers/267391562bc96959eb41
>
> I guess for unattended installs you could just elevate the process
> beforehand.
>
> -Preston
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
>
>> Am 20.02.2015 um 15:07 schrieb Vernon D. Cole:
>>
>>> Pywin32 is mostly written in C, and has lots of dependencies and weird
>>> build requirements.  In order to compile it, you must have the same C
>>> compiler that your release of Python was built with. For older Python
>>> versions (like 2.7) that compiler is obsolete and hard to find, so
>>> installs from source are pretty nearly impossible.
>>>
>>>    Would a binary wheel be able to do all of the crazy set up that the
>>> Windows installer does?
>>>
>>
>> AFAIK, wheel do not support post_install scripts.
>>
>> According to the comments in Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py, it does:
>>
>> # copies PyWinTypesxx.dll and PythonCOMxx.dll into the system directory,
>> # and creates a pth file
>>
>> According to the code, it does a lot more...
>>
>> I don't think pip can run this script (it even needs admin privs!).
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
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