New submission from Eric Swenson <e...@swenson.org>: Building python extensions using distutils in python 2.6 with only VC++ 2005 installed no longer works.
distutils appears to require VC++ 2008. The documentation on building extensions for Python 2.6 seems to suggest that VC++ 2008, while preferred, is not required and that it should be possible to build extensions with VC++ 2005. distutils appears to look for vcvarsall.bat in the VC++ 9.0 directories. It decides to use 9.0 based on the return value of distutils.msvc9compiler.find_build_version, which returns 9.0 -- presumably because python 2.6 was built on VC++ 9.0 (2008). Why is does it no longer search for older versions of VC++ (like 2005)? Is this a bug in distutils? If VC++ 2008 (9.0) is required to build extensions, then the python 2.6 web site should make this clear. ---------- assignee: tarek components: Distutils messages: 81833 nosy: eswenson, tarek severity: normal status: open title: distutils seems to only work with VC++ 2008 (9.0) versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5235> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
