[BRLTTY] Can't get brltty to build, was Re: Support multiple Python versions on Windows

Leonard de Ruijter alderuijter at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 14:59:46 EDT 2023


> [quoted lines by Leonard de Ruijter on 2023/10/16 at 19:52 +0200]
>
>> the makefile might fail with running setup.py. You will have to
>> change bdist_wininst into bdist_egg. The newer versions of python no longer
>> support creating a windows installer.
> Is it just a matter of changing the module name? Are the names within the newer module the same?


I'm not sure what module you mean here, but I've seen bdist_egg working 
okay when I was experimenting with building BRLTTY based on MSYS2.


>
>> Alternatively, you will need to install the wheel package with pip and then
>> use bdist_wheel.I actually think that would be the proper way to go, as wheel
>> is now the start of the art format to install prebuidl Python packages.
> Do you know this stuff well enough to make the needed changes? I don't.


I have not yet played with bdist_wheel myself.




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