[issue4636] bdist_wininst installer with install script raises exception

2013-09-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
Dan Nicholson added the comment: Right, that's what makes this difficult. If the stub exe of the target python was used, then it wouldn't need to care about compatibility. However, what you're running is the stub of the build python. So, when I distribute a bdist_wininst exe, i

[issue11598] missing afxres.h error when building bdist_wininst in Visual Studio 2008 Express

2013-09-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
Dan Nicholson added the comment: Like the previous users, I've only got VS Express, so I can't tell exactly what happens when you have VS Pro and it generates the install.rc file. However, I might as well post this fuller patch, which I think would do the right thing since it also

[issue4636] bdist_wininst installer with install script raises exception

2013-09-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
Changes by Dan Nicholson : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31717/wininst-9.0-compat-2.7.exe ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4636> ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue4636] bdist_wininst installer with install script raises exception

2013-09-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
Changes by Dan Nicholson : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31715/wininst-compat-2.7.patch ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4636> ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue4636] bdist_wininst installer with install script raises exception

2013-09-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
Changes by Dan Nicholson : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31716/wininst-10.0-compat.exe ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4636> ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue4636] bdist_wininst installer with install script raises exception

2013-09-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
Dan Nicholson added the comment: It turns out this is pretty easy to fix by just changing the stub to import builtins or __builtin__ depending on the python install version. Attached are patches that fix this for both the default and 2.7 branches. My test case is a pure python module with an