Problem building Python extension

[Christian Heimes]

martijnsteenwijk at gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your reply. I downloaded & installed Visual C# 2008
> express, but unfortunately this doesn't change anything in running the
> setup file. Unfortunately, still no pyd file is produced...
> 
> Did I something wrong?

Yeah, you installed the C# environment. Python is written in C, so you
have to get Visual Studio C++ 2008. However a recent version of MinGW32
is sufficient to build most extensions.

Christian