Problem building Python extension

[John Machin]

On Feb 14, 7:04 pm, martijnsteenw... at gmail.com wrote:
> On 13 feb, 12:45, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
>
> > martijnsteenw... 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
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> Thanks for your reply. In mean time, I discovered the C++ thing
> already ;-).
> Now I installed MinGW, but still the same happens. If I run the setup
> file, the same output comes on the command line and no pyd file is
> created... GRRR
>
> Any suggestions?

AFAIK it will attempt to use a compiler other than the one that Python
was compiled with only if specifically directed to e.g. with --
compiler=mingw32 in the command line when running setup.py.