Re: python and visual C++

2005-02-03 Thread Caleb Hattingh
Olivier But the problem is about modules thats are developped from others with distutils... Yes, sorry, I reread your original post and now realise that you were referring to other people's modules. And with your comments there, I agree with you -> MSVC as a requirement is unfortunate. thx Ca

Re: python and visual C++

2005-02-03 Thread Olivier Ravard
"Caleb Hattingh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit dans le message de news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Olivier > > If you consider using the ctypes module, you can write a dll (windows) or > a shared object (linux) using anything that can make one of those. > > For example, I have successfully used FreePascal

Re: python and visual C++

2005-02-02 Thread Caleb Hattingh
Olivier If you consider using the ctypes module, you can write a dll (windows) or a shared object (linux) using anything that can make one of those. For example, I have successfully used FreePascal to make a dynamic library on both windows and linux and use that library within python on both

Re: python and visual C++

2005-02-02 Thread Robin Becker
Olivier Ravard wrote: ... use another compilator Is there anyone that have experienced this "free" problem and is there a solution that I did not note. I don't want to buy MSVC... Thanks O.R. Googled mingw lib for python brings me to http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/Python%20extensions

python and visual C++

2005-02-02 Thread Olivier Ravard
Hi, When I tryed to compile a python module using distutils under windows, and there is an error message if we do not have Microsoft Visual C++ 6 installed. This is because python have been compiled with MSVC6 and distutils wants it in order to compile C++ python modules. One of the reasons why I