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?

Install mingw (an large task in and of itself that I'm not going to go into
here, but look at http://www.mingw.org/) and make sure the bin/ directory is on
your PATH. You will have to edit the gcc specs file to replace "-lmsvcrt" with
"-lmsvcr71". Its filename is lib/mingw32/3.4.2/specs . After that, use the
--compiler=mingw32 option on build_ext when using distutils.

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