How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Thu, 18 May 2017 06:10 pm, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:

> Am 18.05.17 um 00:21 schrieb Chris Angelico:
>> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus at gmx.de>
>> wrote:
>>> tcc even has a "JIT-mode" of operation (libtcc). For Tcl, there exists
>>> an extension which compiles C code to memory and executes directly from
>>> there. The same thing could be done for Python, too.
>> 
>> One of the complaints that bartc raised against clang was that it's
>> not self-contained - that it depends on some other stdlib. Yet he
>> espouses a tiny C compiler that obviously has the same limitation. On
>> my Linux boxes, I can grab GNU libc; but on Windows, where are you
>> going to get the header files and link-time libraries from? Oh right.
>> MSVC.
> 
> It was me who brought up tcc as a possible useful enhancement of Python.
> I have been using it without external library files to compile
> extensions for Tcl, and have proposed that it could be equally useful
> for Python.
> 
> The whole discussion reminds me of the "bumblebees can't fly" thing.

To quote the Commandant from "Private Schultz" (a wonderful, but now
impossible to track down, BBC comedy series):

"Consider the bumblebee. It flies, damn you, because it does not know that
it cannot!"





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Steve
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