[tahoe-dev] setup.py build exits with: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

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Hi all

I'm just giving Tahoe-LAFS 1.9.1 a spin for the first time. Following
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/quickstart.rst
on a Windows 7 system (64-bit) I'm facing the following issues:

1. After installing Python 2.7, the python binary is not in the
%PATH%. I realise this is not a Tahoe-LAFS issue but it should
probably be documented (preferably with a quick workaround) in the
quickstart document.

2. setup.py build exits with:
[...]
Searching for pycryptopp>=0.5.20
Reading http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-dep-sdists/
Reading http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-lafs-dep-eggs/
Best match: pycryptopp 0.6.0.1206569328141510525648634803928199668821045408958
Downloading https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-dep-sdists/pycry
ptopp-0.6.0.1206569328141510525648634803928199668821045408958.tar.gz
Processing pycryptopp-0.6.0.1206569328141510525648634803928199668821045408958.tar.gz
Running pycryptopp-0.6.0.1206569328141510525648634803928199668821045408958\setup
.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
c:\users\[username]\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-vhm8wh\pycryptopp-0.6.0.1206569328141510525648634803928199668821045408958\egg-
dist-tmp-26epl3

Setting up environment to run scripts for the current user...
Already done: associate the filetype .pyscript with Python.File for the current
user.
Already done: add .pyscript to the user environment variable PATHEXT.
Already done: add .pyw to the user environment variable PATHEXT.
error: Setup script exited with error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat


Your guidance on this?

Thanks

Alex