Re: help compiling Python on vs 2008!

2008-05-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> VS2005 seems to be officially supported. That impression is incorrect. There is the PCbuild8 directory, but it isn't maintained or tested in a systematic way. Users of it may need to adjust it before it can do something useful. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-l

Re: help compiling Python on vs 2008!

2008-05-17 Thread inhahe
"inhahe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:... > VS2005 seems to be officially supported. Here's part of the readme file > in the PCBuild8 directory in the Python 2.5 source. > > " > Building Python using VC++ 8.0 > - > This directory is used to build P

Re: help compiling Python on vs 2008!

2008-05-17 Thread inhahe
VS2005 seems to be officially supported. Here's part of the readme file in the PCBuild8 directory in the Python 2.5 source. " Building Python using VC++ 8.0 - This directory is used to build Python for Win32 platforms, e.g. Windows 95, 98 and NT. It requires

Re: help compiling Python on vs 2008!

2008-05-17 Thread Colin J. Williams
inhahe wrote: "Christian Heimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] inhahe schrieb: what is going on here, and how do I compile these external libraries? I assume you are trying to compile Python 2.5 with VS 9.0. It's not supported. Some extensions don't compile under

Re: help compiling Python on vs 2008!

2008-05-17 Thread Christian Heimes
Matthieu Brucher schrieb: > Even if you compile Python 2.5 with VS2008, VS2003 is used for the > extensions, AFAIR. I didn't try Python 2.6 because I only have Visual C++ > Express 2008. You can compile 2.6 and 3.0 with the free Express Edition just fine. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: help compiling Python on vs 2008!

2008-05-17 Thread Matthieu Brucher
2008/5/17 Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Matthieu Brucher schrieb: > > Hi, > > > > I did not manage to build extension with distutils with Python compiled > with > > VS different than 2003. The need for 2003 was hard-coded in distutils. > > You can try building extensions with VS2008 with

Re: help compiling Python on vs 2008!

2008-05-17 Thread Christian Heimes
Matthieu Brucher schrieb: > Hi, > > I did not manage to build extension with distutils with Python compiled with > VS different than 2003. The need for 2003 was hard-coded in distutils. > You can try building extensions with VS2008 with Scons. This is what I do a > lot, and everything works fine a

Re: help compiling Python on vs 2008!

2008-05-17 Thread Matthieu Brucher
Hi, I did not manage to build extension with distutils with Python compiled with VS different than 2003. The need for 2003 was hard-coded in distutils. You can try building extensions with VS2008 with Scons. This is what I do a lot, and everything works fine as long as the interface does not use s

Re: help compiling Python on vs 2008!

2008-05-17 Thread inhahe
"Christian Heimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > inhahe schrieb: >> what is going on here, and how do I compile these external libraries? > > I assume you are trying to compile Python 2.5 with VS 9.0. It's not > supported. Some extensions don't compile under VS 9.0

Re: help compiling Python on vs 2008!

2008-05-17 Thread Christian Heimes
inhahe schrieb: > what is going on here, and how do I compile these external libraries? I assume you are trying to compile Python 2.5 with VS 9.0. It's not supported. Some extensions don't compile under VS 9.0 Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

help compiling Python on vs 2008!

2008-05-16 Thread inhahe
In order to compile Python, I need to compile 7 external libraries manually that don't come with Python, the first being tcl. I'm compiling on VS 2008. Since the Python source doesn't have a PCBuild9 directory, I'm using the PCBuild8 directory. When following readme.txt to a T, tcl won't compile