[SciPy-user] Weave problem

[Barry Drake]

It works now!  Many, many thanks for your prompt
response and easy solution (the error message looked
much more ominous).

Barry

--- "Travis N. Vaught" <travis at enthought.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: scipy-user-bounces at scipy.net
> [mailto:scipy-user-bounces at scipy.net]
> > On Behalf Of Barry Drake
> > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 7:28 PM
> > To: SciPy Users
> > Subject: [SciPy-user] Weave problem
> > 
> > When I try to run the fibonacci.py that came
> installed
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >     compiler =
> new_compiler(compiler=compiler_name)
> >   File ".\distutils\ccompiler.py", line 1173, in
> > new_compiler
> >   File ".\distutils\msvccompiler.py", line 212, in
> > __init__
> > distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Python
> was
> > built with version 6 of Visual Studio, and
> extensions
> > need to be built with the same version of the
> > compiler, but it isn't installed.
> > 
> > Does this mean I have to go out and buy MCVC 6.0
> and
> > uninstall MSVC 7.1 or rebuild Python 2.3 from the
> > ground up using my MSVC 7.1?  Is there some reason
> > that Python 2.3 was not built with mingw32, which
> is
> > supplied with the Enthought Python 2.3 dist.?
> 
> [TNV] 
> 
> You can change line 65 to:
> 
>     mod.compile(compiler='mingw32')
> 
> and it works for me (I don't have the msvc compiler
> either)
> 
> There is also --compiler=mingw32 setting that works
> on a distutils
> setup.py with the build_ext switch if you happen to
> be building an
> extension module with the ext_tools.
> 
> 
> > It
> > seems to me that the latter would make the use of
> > weave and other tools seamless regardless of which
> > MS*^(*&(* is installed.  Does anyone know of a
> less
> > painless way to get around the above problem? 
> Please
> > tell me I'm missing something real simple; so far
> all
> > of my searching and digging has yieled nothing.
> > 
> 
> Apologies for the 'broken' example (broken=<requires
> ms product>)...the
> docs and examples are lagging a bit.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Travis
> 
> 
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