From: Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 19:15:57 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Issue #23970: Fixes bdist_wininst not working on non-Windows platform.
X-Git-Tag: v3.5.0b1~16
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c70908558d8ebcb6c280391a720a4a0c6c4bc56d;p=python

Issue #23970: Fixes bdist_wininst not working on non-Windows platform.
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
index a3eff7e7cf..0c0e2c1a26 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
@@ -331,8 +331,13 @@ class bdist_wininst(Command):
                 bv = 14.0
         else:
             # for current version - use authoritative check.
-            from msvcrt import CRT_ASSEMBLY_VERSION
-            bv = float('.'.join(CRT_ASSEMBLY_VERSION.split('.', 2)[:2]))
+            try:
+                from msvcrt import CRT_ASSEMBLY_VERSION
+            except ImportError:
+                # cross-building, so assume the latest version
+                bv = 14.0
+            else:
+                bv = float('.'.join(CRT_ASSEMBLY_VERSION.split('.', 2)[:2]))
 
 
         # wininst-x.y.exe is in the same directory as this file