Cliff Wells schrieb: > 1) Is VC++ 2005 compatible with VC++ 2003? No. If you know very well how the extension module is written, and what precisely the incompatibilities are, you may get away with linking to msvcr8.dll, anyway.
> If not, how can someone > acquire VC++ 2003 (aside from thepiratebay.org)? The Microsoft site > seems to be a dead end here unless you've put out for a spendy MSDN > subscription. As you say, getting it from MSDN is one option; another is to get a used copy from Ebay. There used to be a free (as in beer) version of the compiler binaries; some people use that. > 2) If it is compatible, is there some specific incantation needed (env > variables, etc) to make pycurl use it? If you set the environment variables MSSdk and DISTUTILS_USE_SDK, the distutils will use the compiler "cl.exe" in the PATH, regardless of whether the resulting binary would work. > 3) If this is a dead-end, will mingw32 work instead (the error message > from pycurl implies it might, but I have doubts)? Or will this only > work with the cygwin version of Python? No, the mingw binaries work fine with the pydotorg binaries of Python 2.5. > 4) How much alcohol will be required to forget all this when I'm done? You shouldn't forget it. Instead, you should write your experience into "the Web", so that others have a flatter learning curve. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
