See SF #848614: distutils' msvccompiler now tries to detect that MSVC6

is installed but the registry settings are incomplete because the gui
has never been run.

Already backported to release23-maint.
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Thomas Heller 2003-11-28 19:42:56 +00:00
parent ac5d667e9f
commit b310591169
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@ -547,6 +547,16 @@ class MSVCCompiler (CCompiler) :
return string.split(self.__macros.sub(d[path]), ";")
else:
return string.split(d[path], ";")
# MSVC 6 seems to create the registry entries we need only when
# the GUI is run.
if self.__version == 6:
for base in HKEYS:
if read_values(base, r"%s\6.0" % self.__root) is not None:
self.warn("It seems you have Visual Studio 6 installed, "
"but the expected registry settings are not present.\n"
"You must at least run the Visual Studio GUI once "
"so that these entries are created.")
break
return []
def set_path_env_var(self, name):