[Distutils] Compiler support for VC++ 2005

[Michael Foord]

Paul Moore wrote:
> On 19/01/07, Howard Lightstone <howard at eegsoftware.com> wrote:
>   
>> I am unable to rebuild things using disutils using Visual Studio
>> 2005.  I get reports of "No compiler found".
>>
>> Since VC8 is the only thing available in the future (from
>> Micro$soft), is there any progress toward updating distuils to
>> allow this compiler (and its own locations....) to be supported?
>>     
>
> If you want to build extensions with VS 2005, you need to build Python
> with that compiler. At present, the Windows binaries of Python are
> built with VC 7.1 (VS 2003). Sadly, MS no longer make the free VC 7.1
> compiler ("Toolkit compiler") available, otherwise you could use that
> (you may still be able to find it somewhere, or persuade someone to
> send you a copy).
>
> So, unless you're building your own Python executable, you can't use
> VS 2005 regardless of distutils support.
>
> On the other hand, mingw gcc is fully supported, if that's an option for you.
>   
But, IIUC there can still be issues with using gcc for extensions - 
because you are still using a different CRT layer and this can cause 
problems.

*If* distutils supported VC8 it would be as effective as using gcc. (?)

All the best,


Fuzzyman
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