Using Buildout system on Windows

April 22nd, 2011 by bananos

C:\nimble\nimble-tests>chmod --help Usage: chmod [OPTION]... MODE[,MODE]... FILE... or: chmod [OPTION]... OCTAL_MODE FILE... -c, --changes like verbose but report only when a change is made -f, --silent, --quiet suppress most error messages -v, --verbose output a diagnostic for every file processed -R, --recursive change files and directories recursively --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit Each MODE is one or more of the letters ugoa, one of the symbols +-= and one or more of the letters rwxXstugo. Report bugs to fileutils-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu

Configure Distutils

Tell distutils to use MinGW

Create a file called ‘distutils.cfg’ in “C:\Python27\Lib\distutils”. Open it with a text editor (‘notepad distutils.cfg’) and fill in the following lines:

[build] compiler = mingw32

This will allow to use buildout recipes which involve building C extensions.

Upgrade distutils to latest version

Make sure you have latest distutils version, otherwise your buildout will stuck in an infinite loop like this:

Getting distribution for 'distribute'. Getting distribution for 'distribute'. Getting distribution for 'distribute'. Getting distribution for 'distribute'. Getting distribution for 'distribute'. Getting distribution for 'distribute'. Getting distribution for 'distribute'. Getting distribution for 'distribute'.

Fix this by upgrading distutils in your system-wide Python:

easy_install -U Distribute

Check out upgraded distutils version:

C:\nimble\nimble-tests>easy_install --version distribute 0.6.15

Finally, run buildout

Run bootstrap:

python bootstrap.py

It will create bin directory & buildout.exe script, which we’re going to run. Here is an example output:

C:\nimble\nimble-tests\bin\buildout.exe Develop: 'C:\\nimble\\nimble-tests\\src/se' Uninstalling bin-templates. Unused options for buildout: 'common-parts'. Updating common-eggs. Updating python. Updating clean-bin-templates. Installing bin-templates.

Using Buildout system on Windows

Configure Distutils

Tell distutils to use MinGW

Upgrade distutils to latest version

Finally, run buildout

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