On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Diez B. Roggisch <de...@web.de> wrote: > David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Ralf Haring <har...@preypacer.com> wrote: >>> >>> After running into the error "Setup script exited with error: Unable >>> to find vcvarsall.bat" when trying to use easy_install / setuptools a >>> little digging showed that the MS compiler files in distutils only >>> support up to Studio 2008. Does anyone know if there is a timetable >>> for when Studio 2010 will be supported? >>> >>> I am using python 2.6.5, but web searching seemed to show that 2.7 or >>> 3.X didn't support it yet either. >> >> You should use VS 2008 - the lack of distutils support is only the >> first of a long list of issues if you want to use another compiler to >> build python extensions. Unless you really know what you are doing, >> you are better off with VS 2008, > > Forgive my ignorance, but AFAIK mingw can be used to build extensions > for standard python distributions.
Yes, mingw may be used - I assumed that the OP was interesting in MS compilers. > After all, it's C we're talking here, > not C++. So I have difficulties imagining VS2010 is that much of a > problem. So - which problems you expect? The ones described by Robert, David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
