Compiling and installing python 2.5.2 with Visual C++ 2008

[Juan Pablo Romero Méndez]

Thanks!

I'm having trouble with msi.py, so I'll better try python 2.6

The problem is with Pivy (openinventor bindings to python), it refuses
to compile. It says:

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...
error: Python was built with Visual Studio 2003;
extensions must be built with a compiler than can generate compatible binaries.
Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this system. If you have Cygwin installed,
you can try compiling with MingW32, by passing "-c mingw32" to setup.py.
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And because I've been compiling everything needed by pivy (Coin, Qt,
SoQt, PyQt) with visual c++ 8, I decided to recompile python itself.

  Juan Pablo

2008/12/9 Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar>:
> En Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:32:46 -0200, Juan Pablo Romero Méndez
> <jpablo.romero at gmail.com> escribió:
>
>> I need to compile python myself because of a module (pivy). So I
>> downloaded MS Visual C++ 2008 express edition. It apparently compiled
>> fine but I don't know how to install it to recreate the standard
>> distribution. In linux i'd take "make install", but on windows?
>
> See Tools/msi/README.txt
> BTW, do you really have to recompile Python? Unless the project requires
> some specific compiler flags incompatible with the standard build, usually
> there is no need to recompile Python just because of an extension.
>
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