[Community] Windows installer - Re: Shapely 1.2 release planning

[Francis Markham]

Excellent.  You spoke elsewhere about needing to strip [debug symbols
from?] the DLLs you distribute.  What process do you use for this?

Cheers,

Francis

On 15 July 2010 01:02, Jaakko Salli <jaakko.salli at dnainternet.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Francis, Sean,
>
> On 14.7.2010 13:27, Sean Gillies wrote:
>> No, it's not in the repository. I think it's a good idea to get it up
>> on Github or somewhere. The more Windows packagers, the better :)
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Francis Markham <fmarkham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Sean, Jaakko,
>>>
>>> Is there source-code available for the Windows installer?  I can't
>>> find it in the repository.
>>>
>
> Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by installer source code,
> exactly. At least I've been building the binaries with only
> slightly modified setup.py (for my own convenience, mostly).
>
> diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
> index 0ed51f1..a2371d2 100644
> --- a/setup.py
> +++ b/setup.py
> @@ -44,8 +44,14 @@ setup_args = dict(
>
>  # Add DLLs for Windows
>  if sys.platform == 'win32':
> -    setup_args.update(
> -        data_files=[('DLLs', ['DLLs/geos.dll', 'DLLs/libgeos-3-0-0.dll']),]
> -        )
> +    import glob
> +    if '64 bit (AMD64)' in sys.version:
> +        setup_args.update(
> +            data_files=[('DLLs', glob.glob('DLLs_AMD64/*.dll'))]
> +            )
> +    else:
> +        setup_args.update(
> +            data_files=[('DLLs', glob.glob('DLLs_x86/*.dll'))]
> +            )
>
>  setup(**setup_args)
>
> The basic premise is that you should just copy whatever GEOS
> DLLs you want to use into DLLs directory, then update setup.py
> to match the files, and finally run
>
> python setup.py bdist_wininst
>
> Of course, modifying the setup.py bit could be bypassed by auto-
> detecting the DLLs, using e.g. glob as in the above diff.
>
> Regards,
>  Jaakko
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