https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5400
Bug ID: 5400 Summary: Build using setup.py fails with Visual C++ compiler for Python 2.7; "pip install" works Product: Mercurial Version: default branch Hardware: All OS: Windows Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: bug Priority: wish Component: packaging Assignee: bugzi...@selenic.com Reporter: gabor.stefa...@nng.com CC: duri...@gmail.com, mercurial-de...@selenic.com On Windows, Visual C++ compiler for Python 2.7 is the recommended compiler to use for building the C parts of Python modules. With this compiler, "pip install mercurial" or "pip install ./hg-clone" works, but not "python setup.py build", as the latter tries to use the old distutils package, which can't find the compiler. Setting FORCE_SETUPTOOLS=1 helps. We should probably default to setuptools, at least for Windows. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel