Please provide binaries (eggs?) for Windows amd64

[auxzbk]

Currently there are only eggs for i386 windows available (win32). Since more and more people use the 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7, it would be nice to be able to run native 64-bit python with native 64-bit pyopenssl.

[Jean-Paul Calderone (exarkun)]

If someone can offer a 64bit Windows Vista/7 machine on which to run a build slave, or a license for one of these OS, then I can probably do this. Otherwise, I don't have the means to do so.

[ipatrol (ipatrol6010)]

I can create an MSI for Python 2.7 64 bit. Will attach as soon as possible.

[Jean-Paul Calderone (exarkun)]

This ticket is about the "egg" distribution format, not about the "msi" distribution/installer format.

I'm also not interested in having people create one-off binary installers for pyOpenSSL. There are many problems with this approach. Instead, I'm interested in automating the creation of these things.

[Jean-Paul Calderone (exarkun)]

I think I can use EC2 to provide the 64bit Windows host. I don't know how to build 64 bit modules with VS 2008, though. If someone can help with that then we can probably resolve this for the next release.

[Jean-Paul Calderone (exarkun)]

Here's one lead for future investigation: http://nukeit.org/tag/visual-studio-2010-express/

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (zooko)]

Here is an example of automated build of binaries on Windows using Microsoft compiler. The buildmaster config is available on request:

https://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot-pycryptopp/builders/Dcoder%20Win7-64%20py2.6

[Paul Ecoffet (ecoffet-paul)]

Is there anything new so that I can use PyOpenSSL on a 64bits-Windows? Can I build easily an egg compatible without any trouble? If so, where can I learn to do so?

Thank you for your help

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (zooko)]

You could try:

python -c "import setuptools; execfile('setup.py')" bdist_egg

Which I just cut and pasted from

https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/Packaging