Compiling native extensions with Visual Studio 2012?

[Alec Taylor]

Okay, got all extensions I require to compile successfully with MSVC 2012.

Trick was using this fork: https://github.com/wcdolphin/py-bcrypt

(See their issue log for traceback)

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On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> There have been various threads for MSVC 2010[1][2], but the most
> recent thing I found for MSVC 2012 was [3]… from 6 months ago.
>
> Basically I want to be able to compile bcrypt—and yes I should be
> using Keccak—x64 binaries on Windows x64.
>
> There are other packages also which I will benefit from, namely I
> won't need to use the unofficial setup files and will finally be able
> to use virtualenv.
>
> So anyway, can I get an update on the status of MSVC 2010 and MSVC
> 2012 compatibility?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alec Taylor
>
> [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue13210
> [2] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xPaU9mlCBNEJ:wiki.python.org/moin/VS2010+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk
> [3] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/dev-python/W1RpFhaOIGk