Martin v. Löwis wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python:
> [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 Download the 1.1 SDK: <url:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B3A2CA6- 3647-4070-9F41-A333C6B9181D&displaylang=en> yes it does have 90 odd megabytes of stuff you don't want but the C/C++ compiler is in there. > - 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 I think the VS 2003 toolkit is a framework for extending Visual Studio 2003, IOW a bunch of .NET dlls, some examples and a helpfile (no compiler). Rob. -- http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/
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