[SciPy-user] C compilers and Python wrappers

[David Cournapeau]

Matthieu Brucher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You can check on mingw, but also the Visual C++ Express edition 
> (although it is not open source, but I don't see why it should be).
> To write a module, you can check ctypes (and there is a tutorial in 
> the scipy's cookbook ;))
Note that you won't be able to easily build extensions with Visual C++ 
express edition (or any VS which is not VS 2003 for that matter), at 
least for the official binaries for python 2.5 (that will change for 
python 2.6, which is in alpha stage right now).

mingw32 is directly supported by distutils. And since it is gcc, it 
should be more familiar if you are coming from mac os X.

cheers,

David