> I don't think pip can run this script (it even needs admin privs!). Is there a reason it couldn't run a script that presents a UAC prompt to elevate the process?
Something like this: https://gist.github.com/Preston-Landers/267391562bc96959eb41 I guess for unattended installs you could just elevate the process beforehand. -Preston On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Thomas Heller <thel...@ctypes.org> wrote: > Am 20.02.2015 um 15:07 schrieb Vernon D. Cole: > >> 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 versions (like 2.7) that compiler is obsolete and hard to find, so 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? >> > > AFAIK, wheel do not support post_install scripts. > > According to the comments in Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py, it does: > > # copies PyWinTypesxx.dll and PythonCOMxx.dll into the system directory, > # and creates a pth file > > According to the code, it does a lot more... > > I don't think pip can run this script (it even needs admin privs!). > > Thomas > > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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