On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:58 PM, <martijnsteenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 feb, 10:53, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:30 PM, <martijnsteenw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> >> > I'm trying to build my first python extensionon a win32 system. I >> > followed the description >> > inhttp://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/toext/your-first-extension.html, >> > but after running >> >> > C:\Python26\python first-setup.py build_ext -i >> >> > nothing seems to happen and no file first.pyd is produced. >> >> > The result from the cmd is the following: >> > running build_ext >> > building `first` extension >> > error: None >> >> It is a bug in distutils - you reminded me that I did not report it :) >> . IIRC, it is caused by the lack of a recognized installation VS 2008. >> You should either install VS 2008 (the express vesion is free) or make >> sure your VS 2008 is correctly installed. >> >> Building python 2.6 extensions with mingw is possible as well, but I >> think you need to build your own mingw (because python 2.6 requires >> msvcr90.dll) - maybe recent mingw have msvcrt90.dll included. >> >> cheers, >> >> David > > Thanks a lot for your reply. I downloaded & installed Visual C# 2008 > express, but unfortunately this doesn't change anything in running the > setup file. Unfortunately, still no pyd file is produced...
I am not 100 % confident, but I think the problem is that for Visual Studio express, you need to build the extension in a Visual Studio shell (in the VS 2008 express menu). If that still does not work, I will check on a windows VM (I need to do the bug report anyway). cheers, David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
