[Python-Dev] Distutils thoughts (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Fri Apr 21 14:40:05 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing wrote:

Paul Moore wrote:

I do things like

python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 bdistwininst which seem to work for me. Is that any help? Possibly. I'll have to try it next time I have the problem and see. BTW, does that do anything different from python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 python setup.py bdistwininst ? If so, that's rather unintuitive and could do with documenting more clearly.

In principle, it does the same.

In practice, it doesn't because 'bdist_wininst' will instantiate a compiler (by default MSVC) to check whether the extensions need to be build (built?) or are up to date. Which will fail unless MSVC is installed.

The best solution is to configure the mingw32 compiler in the distutils configuration file.

Thomas

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