[Distutils] bdist and --compiler

[Thomas Heller]

> I'm currently working at the Cygwin-Compiler class on Win32, 
> there I found a problem with "bdist".
> 
> When I have build all extensions with my compiler class and then
> try to use "bdist", the msvc compiler class starts and
> fails (I don't have it on my machine.)
> 
> I think there are two problems.
> 
> First the system seems to check the filedates
> with the objectfile-extensions of the standard compiler
> ( msvc ".obj" , cygwin ".o" ). So it doesn't find my
> object files, and tries to recreate them, but uses a
> wrong compiler. I think it should be
> possible to configure the compiler also for "bdist".
> (If this is already possible? Please explain how.)
> Also I think "bdist" does a "build" if there aren't
> already the right files. In this case "bdist" should 
> accept *all* parameters which "build" accepts.


You could use:
  setup.py bdist build_ext --compiler Cygwin
In this way you can use all the options build_ext accepts.
You have to be carefull with the short options:
  setup.py bdist build_ext -f
is NOT interpreted as
  build_ext --force
but as
  bdist --format

Thomas