Using ICL to compile C extensions

[John Carter]

On 3 Jan 2005 21:18:13 -0800, dayzman at hotmail.com wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Does anyone know how I can use "icl" (Intel C++) to compile C
>extensions? I'm on Windows, and my Python is compiled using VS7.1
>(binary distribution). Right now, when I run setup.py install, it uses
>cl.exe (MSVC++ Toolkit 2003), and I would like to use icl because
>MSVC++ 2003 does not support C99.
>Any help will be much appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>Michael

I've not tried to do it using distutils yet, but when I was building
extension modules with my own make files and nmake all I had to do was
chance cl to icl and use the correct linker. You can tune the
performance playing with switches, but I got a factor 3 improvement on
a DCT type algorithm with out of the box settings.

I can send you an example makefile if you want

John Carter

jnc at ecs.soton.ac.uk