On 2007-11-10 01:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> The directions for MinGW were usually only partially correct. So I >>> went through the two sets of directions I found (links on the site) >>> and mixed and matched until I got it right. >>> There are no directions on how to use Visual Studio 2003 that I've >>> found, just some old free edition. those directions were incompatible >>> with VS2003. I'll post VS2003's correct usage eventually, but it's >>> basically just installing it and then using distutils. >> Getting VS2003 ready to compile Python extensions is really easy: >> >> 1. open a command shell >> 2. run vcvars32.bat >> 3. make sure the Python version you are targetting is on the >> PATH >> 4. "python setup.py bdist_wininst" or "python setup.py bdist_msi" >> 5. pick up the installer in the build\ directory. >> > > > I didn't need to run vcvars32.bat to make mine work. But that's good > to know...I think. > > >> Note: bdist_msi is only available in Python 2.5 and later. >> >> You need VC6 if you want to compile extensions for Python 1.5-2.3 >> and VC7.1 for Python 2.4 and later. >> > > I was aware of that you needed VC6 for 2.3, but I didn't realize it > went that far back. And I knew you needed 7.1 for 2.4 and 2.5, but > I've heard that they're moving to VS2005 soon.
AFAIK, Martin (who's building the Windows installers for Python) is going to skip VS2005 and go straight for VS2008, but I may be wrong. > Thanks for the feedback, Marc-Andre! You're welcome :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 10 2007) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
