error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat (win64, vs express 2008 installed)

[valentij...@gmail.com]

Hello,

When installing Rhodecode on windoes 2008 server 64 bit I am running into a problem.

The pip install rhodecore command fails with the dreaded vcvarsall.bat error:

building 'dulwich._objects' extension

error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

Normally this means you should install Visual Studio 2008, but I already did that.

I also installed Windows Software Development kit to get 64-bit support.

The environment variables are setup correctly (I believe):

VCINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC

VS90COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\

VSINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0

The vcvarsall.bat does exist:

(Env) E:\Rhodecode\Env\Scripts>dir "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Stud

io 9.0\VC"\*.bat

 Volume in drive C has no label.

 Volume Serial Number is 4474-16EC

 Directory of c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC

05-01-2005  16:51             1.247 vcvarsall.bat

The 64 bit stuff is also there:

 Directory of c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin

30-07-2008  12:05           129.520 cl.exe

               1 File(s)        129.520 bytes

 Directory of c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\amd64

30-07-2008  13:58           153.584 cl.exe

               1 File(s)        153.584 bytes

 Directory of c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\x86_amd64

30-07-2008  14:11           128.496 cl.exe

               1 File(s)        128.496 bytes

 Directory of c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\x86_ia64

30-07-2008  14:11           124.912 cl.exe

               1 File(s)        124.912 bytes

Any idea why pip cannot find the vcvarsall.bat ???

[valentij...@gmail.com]

This post seems to provide some kind of solution, don't know if it's the right direction.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/11408432

Basically it says:

The key steps to use the SDK compilers from a DOS prompt are:

1) Run either vcvars32.bat or vcvars64.bat as appropriate.

2) At the prompt, execute "set MSSdk=1"

3) At the prompt, execute "set DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1"

With this the compiler succeeds, but now I arrive at the next error:

ImportError: Failed loading extension 'toc' from 'markdown.extensions.toc' or 'mdx_toc'

[valentij...@gmail.com]

The issue with the "missing" vcvarsall.bat is a known issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue7511

[valentij...@gmail.com]

It turned out that my virtualenv was corrupt. It was still pointing to an old python install, while I did create the env with the newer pyton.

Anay I started all over with a clean RhodeCode folder structure (and using the manual triggering of vcvars64.bat and the other 2 env variables)  and now I am getting much fursther, but still run into an error:

  File "E:\Python27\Lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py", line 299, in query_vcvarsal

l

    raise ValueError(str(list(result.keys())))

ValueError: [u'path']

----------------------------------------

Command e:\Rhodecode\Env\Scripts\python.exe -c "import setuptools;__file__='e:\\

Rhodecode\\Env\\build\\dulwich\\setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().rep

lace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record c:\users\valent~1\appda

ta\local\temp\2\pip-fhpgyw-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally

-managed --install-headers e:\Rhodecode\Env\include\site\python2.7 failed with e

rror code 1 in e:\Rhodecode\Env\build\dulwich

Storing complete log in C:\Users\valentijn\pip\pip.log

[valentij...@gmail.com]

Victory!

To summarize I only needed to steps to install RhodeCode to 64-bit windows (Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1):

- Install Windows 7 SDK for .NET 3.5 SP1 framework (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3138)

- Copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvars64.bat to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\amd64\vcvarsamd64.bat

Can I add this to the instructions, or can someone do that? I think it would be a big help for other trying to get it running on x64 systems.

Useful links: 

- http://blog.victorjabur.com/2011/06/05/compiling-python-2-7-modules-on-windows-32-and-64-using-msvc-2008-express/

- http://bugs.python.org/issue7511

Valentijn

[Marcin Kuźmiński]

Great that you figure it out, would it be possible sending a path or pull request for installation_win.rst file ?

Cheers

Marcin Kuzminski

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[valentij...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, February 9, 2013 3:14:46 PM UTC+1, Marcin Kuźmiński wrote:

Great that you figure it out, would it be possible sending a path or pull request for installation_win.rst file ?

Cheers

Marcin Kuzminski

https://bitbucket.org/marcinkuzminski/rhodecode/pull-request/100/add-windows-64bit-installation/diff