Python Extension Building Network

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2007-11-10 01:44, kyosohma at gmail.com wrote:
>>> The directions for MinGW were usually only partially correct. So I
>>> went through the two sets of directions I found (links on the site)
>>> and mixed and matched until I got it right.
>>> There are no directions on how to use Visual Studio 2003 that I've
>>> found, just some old free edition. those directions were incompatible
>>> with VS2003. I'll post VS2003's correct usage eventually, but it's
>>> basically just installing it and then using distutils.
>> Getting VS2003 ready to compile Python extensions is really easy:
>>
>> 1. open a command shell
>> 2. run vcvars32.bat
>> 3. make sure the Python version you are targetting is on the
>>    PATH
>> 4. "python setup.py bdist_wininst" or "python setup.py bdist_msi"
>> 5. pick up the installer in the build\ directory.
>>
> 
> 
> I didn't need to run vcvars32.bat to make mine work. But that's good
> to know...I think.
> 
> 
>> Note: bdist_msi is only available in Python 2.5 and later.
>>
>> You need VC6 if you want to compile extensions for Python 1.5-2.3
>> and VC7.1 for Python 2.4 and later.
>>
> 
> I was aware of that you needed VC6 for 2.3, but I didn't realize it
> went that far back. And I knew you needed 7.1 for 2.4 and 2.5, but
> I've heard that they're moving to VS2005 soon.

AFAIK, Martin (who's building the Windows installers for Python)
is going to skip VS2005 and go straight for VS2008, but I may be
wrong.

> Thanks for the feedback, Marc-Andre!

You're welcome :-)

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