MS VC++ Toolkit 2003, where?

[Robert Kern]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> Jocular, but not sarcastic.  I have no problems using mingw if that's
> what it takes -- the later instructions I saw were those suggesting the
> Toolkit instead, so those are the ones I'm trying to follow.  What's the
> updated URL for the instructions about using mingw instead?

Oh, that's right, you need an import library for Python24.dll . If you build
numpy first, it will automatically build the import library for you. The
implementation is fairly simple if you would rather bodge a script together. The
driver is the function build_import_library() here:

  http://svn.scipy.org/svn/numpy/trunk/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py

This uses the following module:

  http://svn.scipy.org/svn/numpy/trunk/numpy/distutils/lib2def.py

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