David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Ralf Haring <har...@preypacer.com> wrote: >> >> After running into the error "Setup script exited with error: Unable >> to find vcvarsall.bat" when trying to use easy_install / setuptools a >> little digging showed that the MS compiler files in distutils only >> support up to Studio 2008. Does anyone know if there is a timetable >> for when Studio 2010 will be supported? >> >> I am using python 2.6.5, but web searching seemed to show that 2.7 or >> 3.X didn't support it yet either. > > You should use VS 2008 - the lack of distutils support is only the > first of a long list of issues if you want to use another compiler to > build python extensions. Unless you really know what you are doing, > you are better off with VS 2008,
Forgive my ignorance, but AFAIK mingw can be used to build extensions for standard python distributions. After all, it's C we're talking here, not C++. So I have difficulties imagining VS2010 is that much of a problem. So - which problems you expect? Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list