On Jul 6, 9:21 am, Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollans.com> wrote: > On 07/06/2010 05:50 PM, sturlamolden wrote: > > > It is possible to build C and Fortran extensions for official Python > > 2.6/2.7 binaries on x86 using mingw. AFAIK, Microsoft's compiler is > > required for C++ or amd64 though. (Intel's compiler requires VS2008, > > which has now perished.) > > mingw gcc should work for building C++ extensions if it also works for C > extensions. There's no difference on the binding side - you simply have > to include everything as extern "C", which I am sure the header does for > you. > > As for amd64 - I do not know if there is a mingw64 release for windows > already. If there isn't, there should be ;-) But that doesn't really > change anything: the express edition of Microsoft's VC++ doesn't include > an amd64 compiler anyway, AFAIK.
The original version of the Windows 7 SDK includes the command line version of the VS 2008 amd64 compiler. I've used it compile MPIR and GMPY successfully. The GMPY source includes a text file describing the build process using the SDK tools. casevh > > Also, VS2010 should work as well - doesn't it? > > > > > > > Remember Python on Windows will still require VS2008 for a long time. > > Just take a look at the recent Python 3 loath threads.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
