Building Python-AD on Windows

[Itamar O]

Hi,
I would like to build python-ad on Windows, and create a Windows
Installer.
Here's what I have so far:

C:\...\python-ad-0.9>python setup.py bdist_wininst
running bdist_wininst
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'ad.protocol.krb5' extension
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe /c /
nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GS- /DNDEBUG -IC:\Python26\include -IC:
\Python26\PC /Tclib/ad/protocol/krb5.c /Fobuild\temp.win32-2.6\Release
\lib/ad/protocol/krb5.obj
krb5.c
lib/ad/protocol/krb5.c(11) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include
file: 'krb5.h': No such file or directory
error: command '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC
\BIN\cl.exe"' failed with exit status 2

Looking at the source distribution, I see only krb5.c exists in the
tarball.
Where should I get the krb5.h and python.h includes it expects?

Advice is appreciated,
- Itamar.

[Geert Jansen]

Hi,

python-ad was never really tested on Windows. At least, you'd need the
MIT Kerberos libraries and OpenLDAP to make it work. It would be quite
a bit of work to get it running. On the Windows platform, it's
probably best to use the native AD interfaces like ADSI.

Regards,
Geert

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[Itamar O]

Thanks Geert.

It seems Tim Golden's active_directory module (http://timgolden.me.uk/python/active_directory.html) provides a simple wrapper for AD access in Windows.