Feature Requests item #1348719, was opened at 2005-11-04 23:58 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1348719&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Distutils Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: David McNab (davidmcnab) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: please support the free visual studio sdk compiler Initial Comment: Hi, I noticed, with some pain, that while pythons 2.1 to 2.3 are built with msvc6, and allow for easy compilation of extensions. However, the official binary distro of python2.4 for windows is built with ms vs .net 2003 (version 7.1). I've tried using the .net framework sdk compiler: (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9B3A2CA6-3647-4070-9F41-A333C6B9181D&displaylang=en) also the Visual C++ Toolkit: (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=272be09d-40bb-49fd-9cb0-4bfa122fa91b&DisplayLang=en) but in both cases, distutils complains that it can't find a suitable compiler ("error: Python was built with version 7.1 of visual studio..."). I did some hacking on distutils/msvccompiler.py, and noticed that this module is searching for certain registry keys that are only written by the non-free Visual Studio .NET 2003 compiler. As it is, this situation imposes on developers a deterrent against upgrading to python 2.4. There are millions of msvc6 installations out there, but for many, the cost of upgrading to msvs .net 2003 is prohibitive. I have considered building python2.4 from source using msvc6 (I notice the project/workspace files are present in the source), but feel this is unwise because I could end up building extension modules that are binary-incompatible with everyone else's python2.4 I (and countless others, I'm sure) would really appreciate it if the python devs could rework things to make it possible to build python2.4 extensions using the free ms compilers mentioned above). Cheers david ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1348719&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
