Won't build on Windows

[sp]

Installed Python 2.7.4 (first tried 64-bit and then 32-bit - same error both times). Here is what I got:

C:\allmydata-tahoe-1.10.0>c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py build
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 73, in <module>
    egg = os.path.realpath(glob.glob('setuptools-*.egg')[0])

Previously I was able to build but had other problems (I remember the first error was something like "dep missing").

[zooko]

Thank you for the bug report! I think the error message you posted is missing some lines, though. The end of the error message should say what went wrong with the egg = os.path.realpath(glob.glob('setuptools-*.egg')[0]) line. Could you paste the whole output in here?

[sp]

Just re ran it and this is the entire output:

C:\allmydata-tahoe-1.10.0>c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py build
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 73, in <module>
    egg = os.path.realpath(glob.glob('setuptools-*.egg')[0])
IndexError: list index out of range

C:\allmydata-tahoe-1.10.0>

[zooko]

Thanks!

[daira]

This is odd. What's the output of dir in the directory containing setup.py?

[zooko]

I hope sp comes back and gives us more information and re-opens this ticket. In the meantime let's close it, because we can't reproduce this problem without sp's help.

[CptPlastic]

Im curious why its not building for you. I built Tahoe 1.10 on windows 8.1 and it seems to work fine. I did have to add some dependencies like win32 to python but after that it built and ran. So far so good, I did see that same error without the win32 python script.

[daira]

Tahoe is not supposed to require pywin32 on Windows. It might do due to changes in recent versions of Twisted, but that's a regression.

[daira]

The pywin32 issue is probably #2028.