(quoting out-of-order) On Sep 12, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > Use a section in your pydistutils.cfg file like this: > > [build_ext] > compiler=mingw32
Thank you very much! > You can configure it to do so already. Making distutils > automatically figure out > that this is desired and safe is probably more magic than it's worth. So why isn't the Free Software compiler the default when no compiler is specified? It works fine. If I understand, there is currently no gratis Microsoft compiler available that can be used to produce Python modules. By the way, glancing at the python-dev archives, it appears that every time a new version of Python is ready to be released, people discover that Microsoft has stopped shipping the version of their compiler that was used for the previous version of Python, requiring everyone to agree about whether to upgrade to the newest Microsoft compiler, or to somehow acquire copies of the old, no-longer-shipped Microsoft compiler. Occasionally, in these long, flamey threads on python-dev, one of the participants eventually says "Oh! I've just learned that I can use the Free Software compiler to compile my Python modules, so I didn't need to spend all this time attempting to acquire an obsolete Microsoft compiler!". If distutils used the Free Software compiler without requiring special configuration, it would be that much easier for folks to compile Python modules. Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
