Re: WinCVS installation - python installed but not recognized

"DataGeorge" <[email protected]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:21:57 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.gui.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thank-you Gerhard.

i removed the 65 bit version and reinstalled the 32 bit python26.  It is now in the SysyemWOW64 folder.  WinCVS is happy.

--- In [email protected], Gerhard Fiedler <gelists@...> wrote:
>
> DataGeorge wrote:
> 
> > I just installed WinCVS 2.1.1.1
> > Vista 64 SP1
> > Python26.dll and Python30.dll in C:\Windows|system32
> > The Admin>Preferences>WinCVS>Python DLL>Browse does not recognize either dll.
> 
> WinCvs is probably a 32-bit app. As such, it probably doesn't see what's
> in %windir%\system32, but rather the contents of %windir%\SysWOW64 when
> it accesses %windir%\system32. (Don't you like the consistency in
> naming? :)
> 
> So you probably need a 32-bit Python installation that puts its DLLs
> into %windir%\SysWOW64.
> 
> Can't check here, because I don't have Vista 64 (only XP 64) and I don't
> have WinCvs installed on it.
> 
> Gerhard
>




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