[python-win32] Building my own C extension

[Zachary Turner]

Two questions:

1) Are you embedding this extension in your own application or do you only
need to be able to load it into a stock Python distribution?
2) Is Python 3.5 out of the question?

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 5:10 PM Ken Brooks <kb at sparklight.com> wrote:

> I have joined this list because I need to learn how to rebuild my
> antiquated Python extension properly for Windows. I need to build for
> Python 2.7, which is old and relies upon old compilers. I downloaded the
> suggested compiler:
>
>
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/5/4/A54BADB6-9C3F-478D-8657-93B3FC9FE62D/vcsetup.exe
>
> I downloaded the thing that is supposed to correctly glue it to Python:
>
>
> https://download.microsoft.com/download/7/9/6/796EF2E4-801B-4FC4-AB28-B59FBF6D907B/VCForPython27.msi
>
> But I can't see where to go from there.
>
> In my old world I never actually learned how to use distutils or
> setuptools; I was just building my extension with my VC and then shoving it
> into site-packages. As I read the documentation for distutils and
> setuptools, I am SO LOST! I see much about how to install someone else's
> package, but little about how to create and script my own package for
> building a Python extension written in C. Please, can someone point me to a
> good sample extension package that I can copy from?  A "hello world" or
> something?
>
> Apart from that, can someone please point me to the documentation for the
> current "right" way of building things, as an extension developer?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ken
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