On 3 Jan 2005 21:18:13 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >Does anyone know how I can use "icl" (Intel C++) to compile C >extensions? I'm on Windows, and my Python is compiled using VS7.1 >(binary distribution). Right now, when I run setup.py install, it uses >cl.exe (MSVC++ Toolkit 2003), and I would like to use icl because >MSVC++ 2003 does not support C99. >Any help will be much appreciated. > >Cheers, >Michael
I've not tried to do it using distutils yet, but when I was building extension modules with my own make files and nmake all I had to do was chance cl to icl and use the correct linker. You can tune the performance playing with switches, but I got a factor 3 improvement on a DCT type algorithm with out of the box settings. I can send you an example makefile if you want John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
