Jean-Baptiste PERIN wrote:
>> error: Python was built with version 6 of Visual Studio, and extensions need to be built with the same version of the compiler, but it isn't installed.
How do you expect to be able to write your own extension if you don't have
the environment to do so in the first place? that error has nothing to do
with python itself, but with you not having installed the right compiler.
THe same problem will arise building your own extension.
I know it has nothing to do with python ..
It just makes me sad to see that python cannot get rid of Visual Studoi to be extended . It's just amazing !!
Python is free The compiler I use is free The code I plan to produce will be free
Where can I find a free version of Visual Studio ?
the only thing I use that is not free is the operating system and it's because I had no choice .. my company decided for it
Others suggested trying the ctypes binary installer. Do so.
Yes .. that's what I'm going to do .. but I find it frustrating ..
Perhaps you aren't aware that Microsoft make a free tool chain available that can be used to create binary extensions? There has been some discussion of this recently, and I managed to compile MySQLdb and a couple of the mx extensions, so it's eminently doable [the PIL is proving a little less tractable due to dependencies on other libraries that I have yet to resolve].
The downloads are quite large, but if you want to try it, take a look at
http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/
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