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 For older Python versions (like 2.7) that compiler is obsolete and hard to find, so installs from source are pretty nearly impossible.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? The project is open source, and patches are happily accepted. On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Kevin Horn <kevin.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > check out this bug: > http://sourceforge.net/p/pywin32/bugs/669/ > > There's been some interest, but the pywin32 developers themselves don't > seem to have gotten involved. > > I'm not sure why. It would be really nice to have pywin32 be > pip-installable. > > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Has anyone successfully pip installed the pywin32 package? I'm having >> some trouble with it at the moment. In theory, it should be easier to >> instruct people to "type pip install pywin32" than "go to the >> sourceforge download page, pick the right installer, and run it"; but >> the installer is currently failing. >> >> Full log is available if people want it, but what I'm seeing in it is >> a number of lines like: >> >> Analyzing links from page >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/ >> >> It never gets to the point of searching the build-specific pages, eg: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20219/ >> >> Is there a way to tell pip how to find the file? >> >> All advice gratefully received! >> >> ChrisA >> _______________________________________________ >> python-win32 mailing list >> python-win32@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >> > > > > -- > -- > Kevin Horn > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > >
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