[issue14530] distutils's build_wininst command fails to correctly interpret the data_files argument

[Mario Vilas]

New submission from Mario Vilas :

I tried the following:

setup(

data_files = [(sys.prefix_exec, os.path.join('Win32', 'BeaEngine.dll'))]

  # (... rest of the setup call here...)

)

This works perfectly when running the "python setup.py install". But when 
generating an installer (not MSI but the exe file), the installer places the 
'BeaEngine.dll' in a subdirectory called 'python27'. For 64 bit builds, the 
subdirectory is called 'Python27-x64' instead.

The paths to my python installations are "C:\Python27" and "C:\Python27-x64" 
respectively. The target folders should have been those, not 
"C:\Python27-x64\Python27-x64" which is clearly wrong.

So far my workaround was this:

data_files = [(os.path.join(sys.prefix_exec,'..'), os.path.join('Win32', 
'BeaEngine.dll'))]

But of course, now my setup.py script only works for generating the installer, 
not for installing the module from sources.

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assignee: eric.araujo
components: Distutils
messages: 157801
nosy: Mario.Vilas, eric.araujo, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: distutils's build_wininst command fails to correctly interpret the 
data_files argument
versions: Python 2.7

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[issue14530] distutils's build_wininst command fails to correctly interpret the data_files argument

[Éric Araujo]

Changes by Éric Araujo :


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nosy: +loewis

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[issue14530] distutils's build_wininst command fails to correctly interpret the data_files argument

[Martin v . Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis  added the comment:

Mario: would you like to work on a patch?

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