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-rw-r--r--cffi/ffiplatform.py13
-rw-r--r--cffi/verifier.py12
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/cffi/ffiplatform.py b/cffi/ffiplatform.py
index 27cdde0..8a4a1d1 100644
--- a/cffi/ffiplatform.py
+++ b/cffi/ffiplatform.py
@@ -113,3 +113,16 @@ def flatten(x):
f = cStringIO.StringIO()
_flatten(x, f)
return f.getvalue()
+
+def _hack_at_distutils():
+ # Windows-only workaround for some configurations: see
+ # https://bugs.python.org/issue23246 (Python 2.7 with
+ # a specific MS compiler suite download)
+ if sys.platform == "win32":
+ try:
+ import setuptools # for side-effects, patches distutils
+ except ImportError:
+ pass
+
+# this must be done before get_extension() and before compile()
+_hack_at_distutils()
diff --git a/cffi/verifier.py b/cffi/verifier.py
index 22eb6dc..3cfeecb 100644
--- a/cffi/verifier.py
+++ b/cffi/verifier.py
@@ -26,16 +26,6 @@ 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 with
- # a specific MS compiler suite download)
- if sys.platform == "win32":
- try:
- import setuptools # for side-effects, patches distutils
- except ImportError:
- pass
-
class Verifier(object):
@@ -126,7 +116,7 @@ class Verifier(object):
return basename
def get_extension(self):
- _hack_at_distutils() # backward compatibility hack
+ ffiplatform._hack_at_distutils() # backward compatibility hack
if not self._has_source:
with self.ffi._lock:
if not self._has_source: