This is the readme for the Python for Win32 (pywin32) extensions source code.

See CHANGELOG.md for recent changes.

setup.py is a standard distutils build script. You probably want to:

python setup.py install

or

python setup.py --help

These extensions require the same version of MSVC as used for the corresponding version of Python itself. Some extensions require a recent "Platform SDK" from Microsoft, and in general, the latest service packs should be installed, but run setup.py without any arguments to see specific information about dependencies. A vanilla MSVC installation should be able to build most extensions and list any extensions that could not be built due to missing libraries - if the build actually fails with your configuration, please log a bug via http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32.

May need to run the following before building:

set MSVC_VERSION=2015
set MSVC_DIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0
rem if [%LIBPATH%]==[] call "%MSVC_DIR%\VC\vcvarsall" amd64
set VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS140COMNTOOLS%
set VS100COMNTOOLS=%VS140COMNTOOLS%
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC
call vcvarsall.bat x86_amd64