PIL for Python 2.4?

Robin Becker robin at reportlab.com
Thu Nov 18 10:34:31 EST 2004


Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:03:46 +0000, rumours say that Robin Becker
> <robin at reportlab.com> might have written:
> 
> 
>>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 didn't even *try* to build it on an installation of MS VS 6 we have in
> the office because I remember the long discussion about the transition
> to VS 7, and the need for the building of other libriaries with VS 7
> too...  Of course, I could completely build Python 2.4 with VS 6 and
> then build PIL, which is what I'll do next.  I just wanted to avoid
> troubles with VS 6 project files being out of sync, so I asked if anyone
> did the build.
> 
> Thanks for trying though.

I had a few problems building 2.4b2 on 6; I think the old projects are unmaintained.
-- 
Robin Becker



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