id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc 142 64-bit build for MS Windows Antoine Martin Antoine Martin "There are a number of obstacles which prevent us from following the instructions on [http://winswitch.org/dev/win32.html dev/win32]. For some dependencies, it is just a question of doing more manual work than running the 64-bit version of the installer, as is the case for [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools setuptools] and [http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/index.html python wmi]. Then there's the problem that by default, you can't compile 64-bit programs with distutils and VC 2008... (see [http://bugs.python.org/issue7511] and use this patch: [http://bugs.python.org/file17959/vcvars4.diff] - why isn't this merged and released??) Unfortunately, other dependencies are even harder to deal with: * [http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pygtk/2.22/ pygtk] (or even just plain GTK for that matter) do not provide 64-bit installers at present, and building from source is too tedious: see [http://www.daa.com.au/pipermail/pygtk/2011-March/019610.html this discussion] for details. * [http://www.gstreamer.net/ gstreamer] does not provide a 64-bit version, all the bindings are for 32-bit python only at present..." task closed minor 1.0 Global wontfix