Building extensions with mingw32 -- bdist_wininst fails.

[Thomas Heller]

[posted and mailed]
"Chris Gonnerman" <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> writes:

> I'll be quick.  Here's a transcript:
>
> C:\usr\WConio-1.5>python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32
> running build
> running build_py
> running build_ext
> building '_WConio' extension
> writing build\temp.win32-2.3\Release\_WConio.def
> C:\MINGW32\BIN\dllwrap.exe -mno-cygwin -mdll -static --output-lib
> build\temp.win
> 32-2.3\Release\lib_WConio.a --def
> build\temp.win32-2.3\Release\_WConio.def -s bu
> ild\temp.win32-2.3\Release\wconiomodule.o -LC:\PYTHON\libs -LC:\PYTHON\PCBui
> ld -
> lpython23 -o build\lib.win32-2.3\_WConio.pyd
>
> C:\usr\WConio-1.5>python setup.py bdist_wininst
> running bdist_wininst
> running build
> running build_py
> running build_ext
> error: Python was built with version 6 of Visual Studio, and extensions need
> to
> be built with the same version of the compiler, but it isn't installed.
>
> I checked the archives regarding that error message and found a conversation
> wherein Jeremy Hylton claimed he might have added the code to detect this,
> and Paul Moore asked to have it removed/disabled at least for mingw32 (which
> makes binaries 100% compatible with MSVC6).  In the case given then, the
> extension wouldn't build at all; now it builds but I can't make a Windows
> installer from it.

Can you point me to this discussion, please? Then I'll try to look after
this.

Thomas