Re: Python and binary compatibility

2008-01-26 Thread Christian Heimes
Joshua Kugler wrote: > That page has a link to the Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 page, which > then says it's been discontinued and to use Visual C++ 2005 Express > Edition. Sigh... You can still find some copies of the free toolkit on the internet. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: Python and binary compatibility

2008-01-25 Thread Joshua Kugler
Christian Heimes wrote: > You can use MinGW32 to compile the extension, too. Or use the free > toolchain as described at > http://wiki.python.org/moin/Building_Python_with_the_free_MS_C_Toolkit That page has a link to the Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 page, which then says it's been discontinu

Re: Python and binary compatibility

2008-01-25 Thread Christian Heimes
Ambush Commander wrote: > The primary problem involves binary extensions to the Python > interpreter itself, which Mercurial uses. The only C compiler I have > on my machine is Visual Studio 2005 Express, but Python's binary > distribution was compiled with VS 2003, so the installer refuses to > co

Re: Python and binary compatibility

2008-01-24 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> All my troubles could apparently be fixed if I > could acquire a copy of VS 2003, but Microsoft has made it incredibly > difficult to find the download for it (I don't think it exists). > > Any suggestions? You can get copies of VS 2003 from ebay fairly easily. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.

Re: Python and binary compatibility

2008-01-24 Thread Thomas Heller
Ambush Commander schrieb: > I'm a newbie to Python; various packages I've used in the past (Lyx, > LilyPond and Inkscape, to name a few) have bundled Python with them > for various scripting needs, and Cygwin also had an install lying > around, so when I started to use Mercurial (also Python) I dec

Python and binary compatibility

2008-01-24 Thread Ambush Commander
I'm a newbie to Python; various packages I've used in the past (Lyx, LilyPond and Inkscape, to name a few) have bundled Python with them for various scripting needs, and Cygwin also had an install lying around, so when I started to use Mercurial (also Python) I decided that I'd consolidate all of t