Compiling Python 2.4 extensions with free VC++ Toolkit

[Jody Burns]

Cool!  I wasn't aware of your recipe.  I just tried it and it works 
perfectly.  You should submit it, it's great!  BTW, you can add PyCrypto 
to your list of working modules ;)  Thanks!

Also, I don't know what was going on with my From: headers before; I 
took out the spam-proofing.  I'm using Thunderbird 1.0.

--Jody

Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> Jody at bag.python.org wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been wondering if there's anything on the drawing board about 
>> patching distutils/msvccompiler.py so that it can compile Python 
>> extensions using the free Visual C++ toolkit instead of the entire 
>> Visual C++ development environment.
> 
> 
> I've got a patch for msvccompiler.py as part of my Toolkit recipe here:
>    http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/
> it seems to work fairly well for those who have tried it, and should 
> allow MSVC 7.1 to override MSToolkit if it's installed... i.e. it should 
> work on non-toolkit installs as well (don't have MSVC 7.1 to test that, 
> but the changes shouldn't alter "normal" usage).
> 
>> I know it's possible, because I was able to compile and install 
>> PyCrypto 2.0 for Python 2.4 today.  I did this by commenting out the 
>> part of msvccompiler that checks for VS library paths and manually 
>> adding them to my LIB environment variable.
> 
> 
> If you feel like it, try with the patch/recipe above.  It should avoid 
> any extra work regarding fiddling with paths on a per-package basis 
> (though that's just because it puts the path setup into the vc7.bat file 
> and then tells distutils to look in the environment for them).
> 
> Have fun,
> Mike
> 
> BTW, what is with that funky 7-person garbage "From:" list in your 
> message header?  Some messed-up attempt at spam-catching?  Rather 
> annoying in Thunderbird, as it generates 7 garbage "To" headers when 
> doing a reply-to-all to catch the mailing-list.  Might want to fix that...
> 
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