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| 1 | Packaging Python as a Microsoft Installer Package (MSI)
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| 2 | =======================================================
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| 4 | Using this library, Python can be packaged as a MS-Windows
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| 5 | MSI file. To generate an installer package, you need
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| 6 | a build tree. By default, the build tree root directory
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| 7 | is assumed to be in "../..". This location can be changed
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| 8 | by adding a file config.py; see the beginning of msi.py
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| 9 | for additional customization options.
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| 11 | The packaging process assumes that binaries have been
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| 12 | generated according to the instructions in PCBuild/README.txt,
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| 13 | and that you have either Visual Studio or the Platform SDK
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| 14 | installed. In addition, you need the Python COM extensions,
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| 15 | either from PythonWin, or from ActivePython.
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| 17 | To invoke the script, open a cmd.exe window which has
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| 18 | cabarc.exe in its PATH (e.g. "Visual Studio .NET 2003
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| 19 | Command Prompt"). Then invoke
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| 21 | <path-to-python.exe> msi.py
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| 23 | If everything succeeds, pythonX.Y.Z.msi is generated
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| 24 | in the current directory.
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