Download Microsoft C/C++ compiler for use with Python 2.6/2.7 ASAP

[casevh]

On Jul 6, 9:21 am, Thomas Jollans <tho... at jollans.com> wrote:
> On 07/06/2010 05:50 PM, sturlamolden wrote:
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> > It is possible to build C and Fortran extensions for official Python
> > 2.6/2.7 binaries on x86 using mingw. AFAIK, Microsoft's compiler is
> > required for C++ or amd64 though. (Intel's compiler requires VS2008,
> > which has now perished.)
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> mingw gcc should work for building C++ extensions if it also works for C
> extensions. There's no difference on the binding side - you simply have
> to include everything as extern "C", which I am sure the header does for
> you.
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> As for amd64 - I do not know if there is a mingw64 release for windows
> already. If there isn't, there should be ;-) But that doesn't really
> change anything: the express edition of Microsoft's VC++ doesn't include
> an amd64 compiler anyway, AFAIK.

The original version of the Windows 7 SDK includes the command line
version of the VS 2008 amd64 compiler. I've used it compile MPIR and
GMPY successfully. The GMPY source includes a text file describing the
build process using the SDK tools.

casevh
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> Also, VS2010 should work as well - doesn't it?
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> > Remember Python on Windows will still require VS2008 for a long time.
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