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

2004-12-10 Thread Grumman
Jody Burns > 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 know it's possible, because I

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

2004-12-10 Thread 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

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

2004-12-10 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
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 beca

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

2004-12-10 Thread 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

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

2004-12-10 Thread 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 Th

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

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Hansen
Jody Burns > wrote: 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 know it's possible, because I was able

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

2004-12-10 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
[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 msvccom