PIL for Python 2.4?

[Thomas Heller]

Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> writes:

> Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:17:50 +0100, rumours say that Gerhard Haering
>> <gh at ghaering.de> might have written:
>>
>>>>Has anyone built PIL (1.1.4 or 1.1.5) for Python 2.4?  If yes,
>>>>please let me know, [...]
>>>
>>>I haven't. But it would have been useful if you had mentioned which
>>>platform ;-) Windows?
>> Oh, yes, Windows... On Linux I built it myself.  I just don't have
>> access to a MS compiler on Windows.
>> Sorry for not being clear.
> well I have old MS VC++ 6 and building with setup.py Python 2.4b2
> gives an error related to the compiler; :( I guess I need MSVC++ 7.
>
> I have MSDN subscription, but no idea whether I can get 6 & 7 to coexist.

You need 7.1, not 7.0.  Aka named Visual Studio .NET 2003.

And it coexists with 6.0.

Thomas