Chris Barker wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks for the pointer. (Also thanks to Allen Riddell). I'll take a >> look. Ideally, what I'd like to do is write something up to help >> non-Windows experts get things up and running, so this will be very >> useful. > > Thanks -- that would be great. But really, why is this so hard? Win64 is > essentially One platform, and the freely available SDK is ONE compiler > environment. > > surely it's possible to write a batch script of some sort that you could put > somewhere (or even deliver with python! ) so this would be: > > 1) download and install THIS (the sdk from MS) > > 2) run: > set_up_win_complier.py > > 3) build the package: > python setup.py build > > without needing to do multiple step, without needing to be in the special > set-up > command Window, etc. > > In fact, even better would be for distutils to run the mythical > "set_up_win_complier.py" script for you. > > distutils does work "out of the box" with the VS2008 Express for 32 bit -- I'm > still confused why this is so much harder for 64 bit.
Someone made a decision back when that express edition was released that people who _needed_ 64-bit compilers could justify paying for them. At the time (pre-Windows 7, which was the first usable 64-bit Windows), this made sense, but the world has changed since then and so have the later versions of VC++ Express/Express for Desktop, which now include all the compilers. > *sigh* As I mentioned at the start of this thread - hold your frustration and wait for a little while :) Cheers, Steve > -Chris > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
