Mowry, Peter schrieb: You cannot use MSVC8 anyway because it links with the wrong C runtime library; except if you compile thw whole Python with it.
> > I did some web searching and read that I can: > os.environ['DISTUTILS_USE_SDK'] = "1" > os.environ['MSSdk'] = "1" > > http://docs.python.org/dist/module-distutils.msvccompiler.html > > Unfortunately it sounds like I might need to use the "Platform SDK" to > compile even my very basic python extension module (just loads a dll and > calls one method) (Windows64, python2.5) :-( So what? As an alternative you might try out ctypes, which I just released for win64. Thomas _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig