Kevin Ar18 wrote:
> Are there any step by step instructions for installing Cython with Microsoft 
> Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition?
> I just get install errors.

You can't use VS 2005 or 2008 with Python 2.5 or older because these 
Python versions are compiled with VS 7.1. Each major version of the VC 
compiler comes with its own version of the MSVC runtime dll. The DLLs 
aren't compatible in the sense that you can't pass a FILE* from one DLL 
to another. For example 
http://effbot.org/pyfaq/pyrun-simplefile-crashes-on-windows-but-not-on-unix-why.htm
 
explains one major issue.

(This issue should probably be a FAQ entry on cython.org.)

Either you have to get VC 7.1 (hard and ugly) or you can use MinGW32 to 
compile your code under Windows. I'm using it all the time - mostly with 
success ;)

Christian

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