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| author | mattip <matti.picus@gmail.com> | 2015-10-13 23:59:48 +0300 |
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| committer | mattip <matti.picus@gmail.com> | 2015-10-13 23:59:48 +0300 |
| commit | 21d295f391a74657e4fab44694c90a0bde11c46b (patch) | |
| tree | 006f898257dc285e3e2f3289ecffd20f0c4e340c | |
| parent | 9f40e986b3bd13f7bca2f48e5116420994f8a93e (diff) | |
| download | cffi-21d295f391a74657e4fab44694c90a0bde11c46b.tar.gz | |
document hack removal, leave hack in place for backward compatability with verify()
| -rw-r--r-- | cffi/verifier.py | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/installation.rst | 7 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cffi/verifier.py b/cffi/verifier.py index d38866a..b4ca8b2 100644 --- a/cffi/verifier.py +++ b/cffi/verifier.py @@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ else: s = s.encode('ascii') super(NativeIO, self).write(s) +def _hack_at_distutils(): + # Windows-only workaround for some configurations: see + # https://bugs.python.org/issue23246 (Python 2.7.9) + if sys.platform == "win32": + try: + import setuptools # for side-effects, patches distutils + except ImportError: + pass + class Verifier(object): @@ -112,6 +121,7 @@ class Verifier(object): return basename def get_extension(self): + _hack_at_distutils() # backward compatibility hack if not self._has_source: with self.ffi._lock: if not self._has_source: diff --git a/doc/source/installation.rst b/doc/source/installation.rst index 0808c4f..5d17080 100644 --- a/doc/source/installation.rst +++ b/doc/source/installation.rst @@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ Win32 works and is tested at least each official release. The recommended C compiler compatible with Python 2.7 is this one: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266 +There is a known problem with distutils on Python 2.7.9, as +explained in https://bugs.python.org/issue23246, and the same +problem applies whenever you want to run compile() to build a dll. +``import setuptools`` might help, but YMMV For Python 3.4 and beyond: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-2015-ctp-vs @@ -146,7 +150,8 @@ Windows 64 ++++++++++ Win64 received very basic testing and we applied a few essential -fixes in cffi 0.7. Please report any other issue. +fixes in cffi 0.7. The comment above applies for Python 2.7 on +Windows 64 as well. Please report any other issue. Note as usual that this is only about running the 64-bit version of Python on the 64-bit OS. If you're running the 32-bit version (the |