Hi all,
I've been wondering if there's anything on the drawing board about patching distutils/msvccompiler.py so that it can compile Python extensions using the free Visual C++ toolkit instead of the entire Visual C++ development environment.
I know it's possible, because I was able to compile and install PyCrypto 2.0 for Python 2.4 today. I did this by commenting out the part of msvccompiler that checks for VS library paths and manually adding them to my LIB environment variable.
I looked through the CVS and couldn't find anything about this, although msvccompiler.py has been patched to give a better error message about requiring the .NET framework if you have don't have it installed.
Your thoughts?
--Jody -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
