[tahoe-dev] Tahoe 1.8.2 installation error on Window XP 32bit

[Shu Lin]

> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:15:48 +0100
> From: David-Sarah Hopwood <david-sarah at jacaranda.org>
> To: tahoe-dev at tahoe-lafs.org
> Subject: Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe 1.8.2 installation error on Window XP
>        32bit
> Message-ID: <4DF3DB04.2070803 at jacaranda.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> On 11/06/11 13:19, Shu Lin wrote:
>>>
>>> Please delete c:\tahoe-lafs\twisted-8.2.0-py2.6-win32.egg and try again.
>>
>> The same result. Actually, before what I did was:
>> 1, Unzipped Tahoe in a new clean folder,
>> 2, Modified the _auto_deps.py
>> 3, Then, "C:\tahoe-lafs>c:\Python26\python.exe setup.py build"
>
> As well as changing _auto_deps.py, please change the line
>
>  setup_requires.append('Twisted >= 2.4.0')
>
> in setup.py (line 144) to:
>
>  setup_requires.append('Twisted >= 9.0.0')
>
>
> (If it still fails, post the full log from step 3.)
>
> --
> David-Sarah Hopwood ? http://davidsarah.livejournal.com
>

It turned out to be like this:
Thanks,
-Shu

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C:\tahoe-lafs>c:\Python26\python.exe setup.py build
Not found: tahoe-deps
Not found: ../tahoe-deps

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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "setup.py", line 417, in <module>
   **setup_args
 File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\core.py", line 113, in setup
   _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
 File "C:\tahoe-lafs\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\setuptools\dist.py",
line 260, in __init__
   self.fetch_build_eggs(attrs.pop('setup_requires'))
 File "C:\tahoe-lafs\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\setuptools\dist.py",
line 284, in fetch_build_eggs
   parse_requirements(requires), installer=self.fetch_build_egg
 File "C:\tahoe-lafs\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\pkg_resources.py",
line 573, in resolve
   dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(req, self, installer)
 File "C:\tahoe-lafs\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\pkg_resources.py",
line 823, in best_match
   return self.obtain(req, installer) # try and download/install
 File "C:\tahoe-lafs\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\pkg_resources.py",
line 835, in obtain
   return installer(requirement)
 File "C:\tahoe-lafs\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\setuptools\dist.py",
line 327, in fetch_build_egg
   return cmd.easy_install(req)
 File "C:\tahoe-lafs\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 453, in easy_install
   return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps)
 File "C:\tahoe-lafs\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 483, in install_item
   dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir)
 File "C:\tahoe-lafs\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 663, in install_eggs
   return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base)
 File "C:\tahoe-lafs\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 938, in build_and_install
   self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args)
 File "C:\tahoe-lafs\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 929, in run_setup
   raise DistutilsError("Setup script exited with %s" % (v.args[0],))
distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Setup script exited with error:
Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

C:\tahoe-lafs>
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