Hi, I've made a similar post on the Cython mailing list, however I think this is more python-specific. I'm having trouble setting up distutils to use MinGW instead of Visual Studio when building a module. Even tho I've just uninstalled VS, and cleared out any leftover VS environment variables, distutils keeps wanting to use it.
The steps I took: Fresh installation of Python 3.1.1 Successfully installed MinGW, added to the path variable (gcc in command prompt works) Successfully installed Cython, imports from Cython in Python work. Added a distutils.cfg file in \Python31\Lib\distutils\ directory with: [build] compiler=mingw32 (also tried adding [build_ext] compiler=mingw32) There's a demo setup.py module that came with Cython, I tried the following commands: ---------------------------------------------------- > python setup.py build_ext --inplace error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat > python setup.py build error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat ---------------------------------------------------- I'm having the exact same issue with trying to build the Polygon library via MinGW. In fact, the reason I had installed Visual Studio in the first place was to be able to build the Polygon library, since I was having these errors. What do I need to do to make distutils/python use MinGW? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
