Actually that gist wouldn't help much since it uses pywin32, the thing we're trying to install. (derp!) There may be another way though.
Possibly related: http://bugs.python.org/issue20641 On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Preston Landers <pland...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 versions (like 2.7) that compiler is obsolete and hard to find, so 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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