On Feb 14, 7:04 pm, martijnsteenw...@gmail.com wrote: > On 13 feb, 12:45, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > > > martijnsteenw...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Thanks a lot for your reply. I downloaded & installed Visual C# 2008 > > > express, but unfortunately this doesn't change anything in running the > > > setup file. Unfortunately, still no pyd file is produced... > > > > Did I something wrong? > > > Yeah, you installed the C# environment. Python is written in C, so you > > have to get Visual Studio C++ 2008. However a recent version of MinGW32 > > is sufficient to build most extensions. > > > Christian > > Hi Christian, > > Thanks for your reply. In mean time, I discovered the C++ thing > already ;-). > Now I installed MinGW, but still the same happens. If I run the setup > file, the same output comes on the command line and no pyd file is > created... GRRR > > Any suggestions?
AFAIK it will attempt to use a compiler other than the one that Python was compiled with only if specifically directed to e.g. with -- compiler=mingw32 in the command line when running setup.py. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list