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

[Claudio Grondi]

sturlamolden wrote:
> Julien Fiore wrote:
> 
>>Thanks for your remark, Sturlamolden.
>>
>>Is there a free version of the "Visual C++ 2003" compiler available on
>>the web? I have found "Visual C++ 2005 Express edition"
>>(http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/). According to
>>Micrsoft, it replaces VC++2003
>>(http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/). Is VC++2005ee the
>>good compiler to compile a Pyrex module (or any Python extension) ?
>>Does it link with msvcr71.dll ?
> 
> 
> The bad news is that "Visual C++ 2005 Express" links with msvcr80.dll,
> which incompatible with both msvcrt.dll and msvcr71.dll. What you need
> is the "Microsoft .NET Framework SDK Version 1.1". It contains version
> 7.1 of Microsoft's C/C++ compiler and links with the correct CRT.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/5flob
> 
> I am not sure if this is an optimizing compiler. 
The free available Visual C++ 2003 compiler is the optimizing one.
You have to get it separately downloading the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 
which comes with the Professional version of Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 
2003 compiler and linker.

Claudio

> Microsoft did not give
> away their optimizing compiler prior to "Visual C++ 2005 Express". Even
> the standard version of Visual Studio did not have an optimizing
> compiler, it only shipped with the professional and enterprise
> versions. If this compiler does not optimize, you may try to make
> "Visual C++ 2005 Express" use the import library for msvcr71.dll which
> ships with the .NET SDK.
> 
> Now you know the meaning of the word "DLL HELL".
>