I am testing/working on some Python code on Windows. During this I encounter some issues where I am being told I don't have the .Net SDK installed. So I started investigating this issue and came to http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/index.html
I also checked the latest repository version of msvccompiler.py and I noticed a few potential issues: 1) If MSSdk is set it does not automatically mean that cl.exe and the rest are available. With the latest SDKs, Windows 2003 R2 at least, the bin directory contains no compilers, linkers or the like. On the other hand, it is perfectly valid to set MSSdk to your Platform SDK installation directory. So this is unfortunately a problematic solution as introduced in revision 42515. 2) As far as I have been able to determine .Net 2.0 uses sdkInstallRootv2.0. Also it installs by default under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\ 3) The Windows 2003 R2 Platform SDK uses HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MicrosoftSDK\InstalledSDKs\D2FF9F89-8AA2-4373-8A31-C838BF4DBBE1, which in turn has a entry for 'Install Dir' which lists the installation directory for the Platform SDK. 4) One line has p = r"Software\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\Product", however, there's no subkey at all under my NET Framework Setup entry, only NDP, which in itself has two subkeys, namely: v1.1.4322 and v2.0.50727. The NET Framework Setup\Product seems to be limited to the old 1.0 setup which used a subkey like: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\Product\Microsoft .NET Framework Full v1.0.3705 (1033) This is what my 1.1 and 2.0 give: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v1.1.4322 and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v2.0.50727 So effectively on newer installations (and 1.0 is more or less deprecate in favour of 1.1) this piece of code is rendered unusable. So basically a bunch of logic needs to be rewritten for newer version support and I will investigate this. Are there any other people working on this so that I can throw back/forth some ideas to make sure things keep working for various versions? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com