On 10/29/2014 4:05 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
On 29 October 2014 15:31, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
You can use Express editions of Visual Studio.
IIUC, the express edition compilers are 32-bit only, and what you actually
want are the "SDK compilers":
https://github.com/cython/cython/wiki/64BitCythonExtensionsOnWindows
These are freely downloadable by anyone, no msdn subscription required, but
only if you know where to find them!
AFAICT the main obstacle to using MSVC to build python extensions (assuming
it can handle your code at all) is not anything technical, but rather that
there's no clear and correct tutorial on how to do it, and lots of confusion
and misinformation circulating.
Would it help if I wrote a document explaining how to set up the MS
compilers (free and paid for) to allow building of Python extensions?
There are a few provisos:
1. A lot of it will be pretty trivial: "If you have Vistal Studio
(full edition), install it. Done."
2. It will be out of date very fast as the situation for Python 3.5+
will be trivial across the board.
3. I don't have anywhere particularly authoritative to host it (maybe
the Python Wiki?) and it could easily get lost in the huge swamp of
variously outdated, over-complicated, or otherwise alternative
documents available. Ideally I'd like someone to suggest an "official"
location I could use.
There is already a section in the devguide for building Python itself,
with mostly the same info, except it may not be up to date.
I don't want to do this if it won't be useful, as it'll take me a bit
of effort to confirm the process for the only non-trivial scenario
(64-bit Python 3.3/3.4 with free tools). But if people think it would
help, that's fine, I volunteer.
The devguide needs to be kept up to date. If you open a tracker issue,
put me as nosy to review and commit.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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