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Mupolan · Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 101

Anyone know which compiler python 2.5 for windows is compiled against?
I.e. will i be able to build extensions with vs2005 express?

BigDaddy · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 147

Im pretty sure VS6 is the official windows compiler for python releases.

Mupolan · Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 101

BigDaddy, no, it's currently vs7

BigDaddy · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 147

Mupolan, i thought it was changed back to vs6 because of licensing issues of some DLLs that vs7 compiled binaries require?

Mupolan · Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 101

distutils demands the .NET 1.1 SDK, which would correspond to VS7

BigDaddy · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 147

Mupolan, distutils doesn't depend on .Net

Mupolan · Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 101

BigDaddy, it depends on the .net SDK. never mind
go grep for it

BigDaddy · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 147

But the .net sdk is for building .net assemblies.
Mupolan, its getting respectable.

froomzer · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 148

BigDaddy, most C compilers are written in C

BigDaddy · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 147

Benj, i know that.
Mupolan, thats exactly what any other bootstrapped language does.