Re: Compiling Python 2.4 extensions with free VC++ Toolkit

[Jody Burns]

My bad, I misread his post.  I don't know how to compile Python without 
Visual Studio.

--Jody
Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
Jody Burns wrote (with Peter):
See Mike C. Fletcher's post and 
http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/ for a way to do it 
very easily (you have to be able to use the GNU patch tool, but that's 
not difficult at all).

--Jody

...
not been able to get into hacking on the core of Python because

...
-Peter

Keep in mind that the recipe there is for building *extensions*, not 
core Python.  There's a pointer from my page to a post by someone who 
seemed to have built core Python with the Toolkit, but my page isn't 
going to help Peter much with hacking on core Python.

Just an FYI,
Mike

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Re: Compiling Python 2.4 extensions with free VC++ Toolkit

[Jody Burns]

Cool!  I wasn't aware of your recipe.  I just tried it and it works 
perfectly.  You should submit it, it's great!  BTW, you can add PyCrypto 
to your list of working modules ;)  Thanks!

Also, I don't know what was going on with my From: headers before; I 
took out the spam-proofing.  I'm using Thunderbird 1.0.

--Jody
Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I've been wondering if there's anything on the drawing board about 
patching distutils/msvccompiler.py so that it can compile Python 
extensions using the free Visual C++ toolkit instead of the entire 
Visual C++ development environment.

I've got a patch for msvccompiler.py as part of my Toolkit recipe here:
   http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/
it seems to work fairly well for those who have tried it, and should 
allow MSVC 7.1 to override MSToolkit if it's installed... i.e. it should 
work on non-toolkit installs as well (don't have MSVC 7.1 to test that, 
but the changes shouldn't alter "normal" usage).

I know it's possible, because I was able to compile and install 
PyCrypto 2.0 for Python 2.4 today.  I did this by commenting out the 
part of msvccompiler that checks for VS library paths and manually 
adding them to my LIB environment variable.

If you feel like it, try with the patch/recipe above.  It should avoid 
any extra work regarding fiddling with paths on a per-package basis 
(though that's just because it puts the path setup into the vc7.bat file 
and then tells distutils to look in the environment for them).

Have fun,
Mike
BTW, what is with that funky 7-person garbage "From:" list in your 
message header?  Some messed-up attempt at spam-catching?  Rather 
annoying in Thunderbird, as it generates 7 garbage "To" headers when 
doing a reply-to-all to catch the mailing-list.  Might want to fix that...


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Re: Compiling Python 2.4 extensions with free VC++ Toolkit

[Jody Burns]

See Mike C. Fletcher's post and 
http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/ for a way to do it very 
easily (you have to be able to use the GNU patch tool, but that's not 
difficult at all).

--Jody
Peter Hansen wrote:
None, other than to note that if you and/or others were able to
solve this and make it "easy" for those less VC++-savvy, you
might significantly decrease the bar for those of us who have
not been able to get into hacking on the core of Python because
of being stuck in the MS world yet not willing to shell out more
cash to billg...  maybe, just maybe, that would get a few more
people out there reviewing patches and maybe fixing bugs.
-Peter
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