Hey Zooko,
My 1.9.2 build fails on WIndows 7 x64 with Python 2.6 in Processing simplejson-2.6.0.tar.gz ...it ends on File "C:\Python26\lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py", line 284, in query_vcvarsal Is it avaiable for x64? Thanks Iantcho On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Paul Grunwald: > > Thank you for your persistence on this. :-) > > Here's some context about how our build system works, or in this case > how it fails to work: > > https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/CompileError > > The dependency which failed to build for you is pycryptopp, which > happens to be one that we (especially I) am responsible for > maintaining. > > Now, I'm looking at the pycryptopp buildbots and I see that there are > some Windows buildbots that successfully built: Dcoder's Win7-64-py26, > FreeStorm's mingw32-py26, and marcusw's cygwin: > > https://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot-pycryptopp/waterfall > > One thing that these all have in common with each other and not with > your system is that they are using Python 2.6 and you're using Python > 2.7. > > Hm, according to this mailing list post -- > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-April/573606.html -- > and this blog -- > > http://blog.victorjabur.com/2011/06/05/compiling-python-2-7-modules-on-windows-32-and-64-using-msvc-2008-express/ > -- one cannot build extension modules for Python 2.7 on Windows unless > one has a Microsoft compiler -- VS 2008 -- that is no longer > available. :-( What a stupid... ... > > *sigh* > > Want to try to figure out how to build extension modules with mingw32, > mingw-w64, or tdm-gcc? :-) I recently posted a letter to G+ claiming > that this was possible, although I haven't done it recently: > > https://plus.google.com/108313527900507320366/posts/Mvk7rWGXm8o > > Regards, > > Zooko > _______________________________________________ > tahoe-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev >
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