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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>On a 64 bit Windows 7 machine, the call to find the python libraries using the FindPythonLibs.cmake module is not finding where python is installed. I tried this with both version 2.8.4 and with 2.8.5 of CMake, with Python 2.7 installed. Using the same code, FindPythonLibs works ok on my Windows XP machine.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I did some investigation, and it looks like reading the windows registry in Windows 7 is no longer working. The FindPythonLibs module makes a call to Find_Library, telling it to also check a registry key:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>FIND_LIBRARY(PYTHON_LIBRARY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> NAMES python${_CURRENT_VERSION_NO_DOTS} python${_CURRENT_VERSION}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> PATHS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Python\\PythonCore\\${_CURRENT_VERSION}\\InstallPath]/libs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> # Avoid finding the .dll in the PATH. We want the .lib.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> NO_SYSTEM_ENVIRONMENT_PATH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On my Windows 7 machine, the registry key <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Python\\PythonCore\\${_CURRENT_VERSION}\\InstallPath]</span> (where _<i>CURRENT</i>_VERSION is 2.7) exists and the default key contains the correct path to the python libraries yet PYTHON_LIBRARY gets set to NotFound. Per the FAQS and the thread posted at <a href="http://cmake.3232098.n2.nabble.com/Reading-registry-broken-on-Windows-7-td4030673.html">http://cmake.3232098.n2.nabble.com/Reading-registry-broken-on-Windows-7-td4030673.html</a>, I tried using SET_FILENAME_COMPONENT to read the contents of the registry key. The result is the variable being set to \registry instead of the correct path to the python libraries.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is there another way to find the install location of the python libraries that works on Windows 7 and Windows XP, 32 bit and 64 bit machines?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Theresa<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>