Re: Python, Reportlabs, Pil and Windows 7 (64bit)

2010-03-18 Thread DreiJane
Hello, i've used reportlabs over two years now and was content with its quality. These days i have turned to cairo and can only recommend to do so: It is still easier to use (than the well-designed reportlabs tools) and an engine working in a lot of other software too, for example firefox. Reason

Re: Python, Reportlabs, Pil and Windows 7 (64bit)

2010-03-15 Thread Astley Le Jasper
Hi Robin, It looks like you've been busy. I'm sorry but you are well over my head at the moment! :-) If you need me to test an install then I'd be happy to help. However, I just received an email from Christoph Gohlke saying: " ... There are 64 bit versions of Reportlab and PIL for Python 2.6 f

Re: Python, Reportlabs, Pil and Windows 7 (64bit)

2010-03-15 Thread Robin Becker
On 12/03/2010 19:29, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: Not sure if this is a bug I think it is. It seems that the cross-build support in msvc9compiler has been tested only in a build tree of Python (where there is no Libs directory). This minor patch seems to fix the problem for me (using a PCBuild fo

Re: Python, Reportlabs, Pil and Windows 7 (64bit)

2010-03-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Not sure if this is a bug I think it is. It seems that the cross-build support in msvc9compiler has been tested only in a build tree of Python (where there is no Libs directory). For released copies of Python, I could change that to distribute the AMD64 pythonXY.lib in libs/amd64. [FWIW, I'm st

Re: Python, Reportlabs, Pil and Windows 7 (64bit)

2010-03-12 Thread Robin Becker
On 12/03/2010 11:40, Robin Becker wrote: I assume I can get those from a working Python amd64 install and stuff on one of the compiler paths somehow. Not sure if this is a bug; I dug around a bit and find that because of the cross compilation distutils is supposed to add an extra li

Re: Python, Reportlabs, Pil and Windows 7 (64bit)

2010-03-12 Thread Robin Becker
On 11/03/2010 18:00, Martin v. Loewis wrote: I have a Windows 7 (64bit AMD) machine .. Perhaps some expert on the python list knows which versions of VS support 64bit; I do have VS 2005/2008 etc, but I'll probably need to set up a 64bit machine to see if they will install on a 64bit arc

Re: Python, Reportlabs, Pil and Windows 7 (64bit)

2010-03-12 Thread Robin Becker
Following the information from MvL I will try and get the 2.6 pyds built for amd64, I see that there's a cross platform compile technique for distutils, but am not sure if it applies to bdist_winexe etc etc. I'll have a go at this next week. -- Robin Becker -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: Python, Reportlabs, Pil and Windows 7 (64bit)

2010-03-11 Thread Martin v. Loewis
> I’m sorry everyone. I didn’t realise I had installed the 64-bit > version of Python. Well, at least someone else might find have the > same problem. But I think that there is going to be a bit of a rough > patch as everyone moves over to 64-bit. Expect that move to take a few more years. 64-bit

Re: Python, Reportlabs, Pil and Windows 7 (64bit)

2010-03-11 Thread Astley Le Jasper
@Robin Thanks. I thought that this seemed to be a general python thing because it was effecting both installs. However, after also reading Martin's comments ... @Martin > This is somewhat imprecise: is it > a) that your CPU is AMD64, and thus supports 64-bit mode, or > b) that *in addition*, your

Re: Python, Reportlabs, Pil and Windows 7 (64bit)

2010-03-11 Thread Martin v. Loewis
>> I have a Windows 7 (64bit AMD) machine This is somewhat imprecise: is it a) that your CPU is AMD64, and thus supports 64-bit mode, or b) that *in addition*, your Windows 7 installation is a 64-bit installation, or c) that *in addition*, your Python installation is also a 64-bit installation

Re: Python, Reportlabs, Pil and Windows 7 (64bit)

2010-03-11 Thread Robin Becker
On 11/03/2010 13:55, Astley Le Jasper wrote: I have a Windows 7 (64bit AMD) machine and am having quite a lot of problems installing Reportlabs and Pil. I wondered if anyone else has had the same issues and what the best way of dealing with it. So far I've tried: 1. Reportlabs / Pil 32 installe

Python, Reportlabs, Pil and Windows 7 (64bit)

2010-03-11 Thread Astley Le Jasper
I have a Windows 7 (64bit AMD) machine and am having quite a lot of problems installing Reportlabs and Pil. I wondered if anyone else has had the same issues and what the best way of dealing with it. So far I've tried: 1. Reportlabs / Pil 32 installers - I've tried using these but they can't find