id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
1093	win32 build hell	zeromus	somebody	"I am experiencing hell getting the win32 stuff to build. I should mention that the building works OK by embedding into my python install. But I need a zipfile with an EXE in it if I am going to get any buy-in from my friends. 

I am basically following instructions at http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AdvancedInstall, but modified in this as a last ditch effort. i assure you the results are the same when i follow those steps as well by running setup.py directly

Here's what I do:

install python-2.5.4.msi to C:\Python25\
install pywin32-214.win32-py2.5.exe
extract allmydata-tahoe-1.7.0-SUMO.zip to C:\tahoe-lafs
open a command prompt to c:\tahoe-lafs and setup mingw,python25 environment

ran mingw32-make.exe 
{{{
error: Setup script exited with error: Don't know how to compile cryptopp\x64dll.asm
}}}

it seems that distutils msvccompiler.py doesnt know how to compile a .asm file which pycryptopp supplies as a source file to be compiled. it is easy to make msvccompiler.py handle a .asm file. making this change allows me to proceed..
[apparently this has already been covered at http://bugs.python.org/issue8597]

build OK.
ran mingw32-make.exe windows-exe

build OK.
now run windows\dist\tahoe:
{{{
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""tahoe.py"", line 1, in <module>
  File ""allmydata\__init__.pyc"", line 27, in <module>
  File ""nevow\__init__.pyc"", line 143, in <module>
  File ""nevow\__init__.pyc"", line 29, in load
  File ""nevow\util.pyc"", line 183, in _namedAnyWithBuiltinTranslation
  File ""twisted\python\reflect.pyc"", line 464, in namedAny
  File ""twisted\python\reflect.pyc"", line 400, in _importAndCheckStack
  File ""formless\webform.pyc"", line 26, in <module>
  File ""pkg_resources.pyc"", line 882, in resource_filename
  File ""pkg_resources.pyc"", line 1344, in get_resource_filename
NotImplementedError: resource_filename() only supported for .egg, not .zip
}}}
Around this time, I ought to mention I know diddly squat about python. So I start trying to fix it anyway.

google says (from 5yrs ago) it isnt possible to run resource_filename() from a zip and nevow needs be changed.

newest nevow says setuptools can handle it in a comment on that function

but yet the latest setuptools is what generates the error i pasted. it makes no effort to handle resource_filenames() from a zip.

Now, I can attempt to bully my way through this problem by unzipping library.zip to a directory called library.zip

Then I get this error:
{{{
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""tahoe.py"", line 7, in <module>
  File ""allmydata\scripts\runner.pyc"", line 6, in <module>
  File ""C:\tahoe-lafs\windows\dist\library.zip\pkg_resources.pyc"", line 666, in
require
  File ""C:\tahoe-lafs\windows\dist\library.zip\pkg_resources.pyc"", line 565, in
resolve
    equivalent subpath.  For an example namespace handler, see
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: twisted
}}}
This can be resolved by pasting a bunch of egg directories in the windows\dist\library.zip directory. After I paste twisted, I will get:

pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: zope.interface
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: setuptools

After those, I will get 

pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: allmydata-tahoe

This confuses me, because I don't even see my system looking for a file that looks like allmydata-tahoe
At this point, all I can do is comment out 
pkg_resources.require('allmydata-tahoe')
from runner.py

Then I will get
{{{
C:\tahoe-lafs\windows\dist\library.zip\allmydata\scripts\runner.py:6: UserWarnin
g: Module twisted was already imported from C:\tahoe-lafs\windows\dist\library.z
ip\twisted\__init__.pyc, but c:\tahoe-lafs\windows\dist\library.zip\twisted-10.0
.0-py2.5-win32.egg is being added to sys.path
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""tahoe.py"", line 9, in <module>
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
}}}
Finally, I paste the contents of runner.py into tahoe.py (starting in tahoe.py after _junk = depends)

And then I remove the run function and just replace it with 
{{{
rc = runner(sys.argv[1:])
sys.exit(rc)
}}}

(just making it the main function or whatever you call it in python)

And FINALLY, tahoe.exe works. I can use create-client and configure it to use the public test grid, and then when i use tahoe start...

Can't find twistd (it comes with Twisted).  Aborting.

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flashback hours ago
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I installed the last public build of Allmydata win32 client. Can't test it now. But look! It comes with tahoe.exe. create-client worked, and then when i use tahoe start...
{{{
Can't find twistd (it comes with Twisted).  Aborting.
}}}
So I guess I'll try to build my own.

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Flash forward to present
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And around that time I gave up."	defect	closed	major	soon	packaging	1.8.0	duplicate	windows setuptools pycryptopp nevow twisted	freestorm77@… aradriel@…