Eric Swenson added the comment:
Hi Tarek,
I have been debugging this and found the following:
If you set the DISTUTILS_USE_SDK environment variable to any value (I used
DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1) and the MSSdk environment variable to anything (I used
MSSdk=1), and you manually run the "vcvarsal
New submission from Eric Swenson :
Building python extensions using distutils in python 2.6 with only VC++
2005 installed no longer works.
distutils appears to require VC++ 2008. The documentation on building
extensions for Python 2.6 seems to suggest that VC++ 2008, while
preferred, is
