Also, I don't know what was going on with my From: headers before; I took out the spam-proofing. I'm using Thunderbird 1.0.
--Jody
Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I've been wondering if there's anything on the drawing board about patching distutils/msvccompiler.py so that it can compile Python extensions using the free Visual C++ toolkit instead of the entire Visual C++ development environment.
I've got a patch for msvccompiler.py as part of my Toolkit recipe here:
http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/
it seems to work fairly well for those who have tried it, and should allow MSVC 7.1 to override MSToolkit if it's installed... i.e. it should work on non-toolkit installs as well (don't have MSVC 7.1 to test that, but the changes shouldn't alter "normal" usage).
I know it's possible, because I was able to compile and install PyCrypto 2.0 for Python 2.4 today. I did this by commenting out the part of msvccompiler that checks for VS library paths and manually adding them to my LIB environment variable.
If you feel like it, try with the patch/recipe above. It should avoid any extra work regarding fiddling with paths on a per-package basis (though that's just because it puts the path setup into the vc7.bat file and then tells distutils to look in the environment for them).
Have fun, Mike
BTW, what is with that funky 7-person garbage "From:" list in your message header? Some messed-up attempt at spam-catching? Rather annoying in Thunderbird, as it generates 7 garbage "To" headers when doing a reply-to-all to catch the mailing-list. Might want to fix that...
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