Compiling python on windows with vs

[Mats Wichmann]

On 6/13/23 12:12, Thomas Schweikle via Python-list wrote:
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> Am Di., 13.Juni.2023 um 19:20:38 schrieb Jim Schwartz:
>> What version of visual studio are you using?
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> Visual Studio 2022, aka 17.6.2.
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>> What version of python?
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> python 3.10.11 or 3.11.4
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>> I’ve had success with using the cython package in python and cl from 
>> visual studio, but I haven’t tried visual studio alone.
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> Same problem at the same place: directory "../modules/..." not found, 
> Renaming it from "Modules" to "modules" it is found, but then fails to 
> find "Modules".
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> Looks like it awaits, compiling in Windows an filesystem only case 
> aware, not case sensitive -- I'm assuming this a bug now. Building 
> within cygwin (or MSYS, Ubuntu) this works as expected. But there it 
> does not search for "modules" once and "Modules" at an other place.

I just did this build the other day for the first time even from a git 
checkout (so VS22, and not a versioned release but top of main branch), 
and there was no such problem - did you follow the instructions at 
https://devguide.python.org/getting-started/setup-building/index.html?