Compiling extension with Visual C++ Toolkit Compiler - MSVCR80.dll

[Peter Wang]

On Jan 29, 2:47 pm, alexandre_irrt... at yahoo.com wrote:
> The library seems to build correctly (producing Polygon.py and
> cPolygon.pyd), but when I import it I get the following message from
> python.exe: "This application has failed to start because MSVCR80.dll
> was not found". I thought that this might be due to Python trying to
> link against  the .dll from Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2005, also
> installed on my PC, instead of MSVCR71.dll. So I've removed MS Visual C
> ++ Express 2005, and any trace of it from my environment variables,
> but that doesn't seem to change anything.

Alex,  I'm not familiar with the particular problem you're seeing, but 
did you try building the polygon library using the gcc that's included 
with the Enthought distribution?

python setup.py build_clib build_ext --inplace --compiler=mingw32


-Peter