Pyrex installation on windows XP: step-by-step guide

[Robert Kern]

Jim Lewis wrote:
>>and change "-lmsvcrt" to "-lmsvcr71".
> 
> But then I get this error: Python was built with version 7.1 of Visual
> Studio, and extensions need to be built with the same version of the
> compiler, but it isn't installed.
> I want to use mingw.

You have to tell distutils to use mingw:

  python setup.py build_ext --compiler=mingw32

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Robert Kern

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