[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I'm trying to install two different packages which wrap C or C++ code > and which make use of distutils.build_ext, which barfs because my only > compiler is too new. Trying this both on Python 2.4.3 and 2.5. > Evidently there is a requirement that the compiler used to build the > C/C++ in the installation must be the same as was used to build > Python? Am I understanding that correctly?
Yes. > What's the workaround? There are several work-arounds, but they all come down to "get a copy of the one of the supported compilers". The options are: - get a copy of VS 2003 on Ebay - use cygwin/mingw (should work for C, might not work for C++ if you use MFC or some other MS-compiled library) - find the VS 2003 Toolkit; Microsoft took it off the net, but Google may still be able to help Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
