[Python-Dev] Re: Timing for Py2.4 (original) (raw)

Gareth garth at garthy.com
Wed Mar 31 06:11:05 EST 2004

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Paul Moore wrote:

error: Python was built with version 7.1 of Visual Studio, and extensions need to be built with the same version of the compiler, but it isn't installed.

So even though I have the free VC7 compiler, and it's in my PATH, I still can't build a simple extension with it. Of course it won't. You need VC7.1, which comes as part of Visual Studio .NET 2003. The free compiler is based on VC7.1 so it will build it just needs distutils to be modified to look for the free compiler.

It looks like it's just a case of looking in the right registry key. I've never looked at distutils before but I'll have a go

Garth

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