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ilanschnell / bsdiff4

binary diff and patch using the BSDIFF4-format
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Requires Admin to install on Windows #20

Closed Zopolis4 closed 2 years ago

Zopolis4 commented 2 years ago

Installing bsdiff4 via pip install bsdiff4 on windows errors out, as it requires Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater, which can be installed through VS Build Tools, or any subsets of it. Installing VS Build Tools (or any superset of it) requires admin, which I do not have on my main development machine, and the script I am writing requires bsdiff4 and Python 3.10 (for match-case). While there are precompiled .whl files for versions up to 3.9 available here, they have no versions for Python 3.10. May I suggest that you supply precompiled .whl files in the releases section, so this can be installed without admin?

ilanschnell commented 2 years ago

The new bsdiff4 1.2.2 release has wheels available on PyPI, such that pip install bsdiff4 does not require having MS Visual C++ anymore.