[Python-Dev] Building Python for AMD64 (Windows) (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Mar 22 23:15:53 CET 2006

Thomas Heller wrote:

Ok, so now I'm able to make itanium builds (which I don't want because I don't have such amachine). The Feb 2003 Platform SDK apparently doesn't have an AMD64 compiler.

Right. The Itanium compiler was included in the November 2004 (or so) SDK (which called itself still Feb 2003); this was available only to MSDN subscribers.

In the meantime, I installed a fresh copy of MSVC on a second machine (Athlon64, running Windows XP 64bit), plus the Platform SDK for Win Server 2003 SP1 - April 2005 Edition.

That one does have the AMD64 compiler.

Same problems with vsextcomp, but vsextcomp repairs the path itself again. But here, starting the build it complains: CL.EXE Wrapper for VSExtCompiler Plugin Error 2 while trying to open SDK path key from registry ... Error: Could not determine installation directory of Microsoft SDK.

Guess I'll install the 2003 SP1 SDK on the first machine and try it there.

No. I thought I had released that version of vsextcomp... MS changed the registry keys to locate the SDK, and vsextcomp had to be updated for that. Will check tomorrow.

Regards, Martin

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