Hi, When I tryed to compile a python module using distutils under windows, and there is an error message if we do not have Microsoft Visual C++ 6 installed. This is because python have been compiled with MSVC6 and distutils wants it in order to compile C++ python modules.
One of the reasons why I use python is because this is a free language. But I need a non free compilator to compile my C++ module !!! Choosing MSVC to compile python is a strange choice since there are other free compilators like MinGW. I think that using another compilator should be possible in order to compile python modules since I use BOOST/MinGW to develop my own modules... Diffrerent solutions appears : - peoples who compile python for windows should use a free compilator (MinGW or Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 for example) - modify distutils in order to use another compilator Is there anyone that have experienced this "free" problem and is there a solution that I did not note. I don't want to buy MSVC... Thanks O.R. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list