On 2-12-2012 22:06, Dave Angel wrote: > On 12/02/2012 09:34 AM, Ami Tavory wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm porting a C++ extension module to a Windows machine that has both VC8 >> and VC10 installed. Unfortunately, `setup.py build` tries to build using >> VC8, which fails (the extension uses C++ standard libraries that VC didn't >> used to have). Is there a way to get setup.py to use VC10 (preferably >> externally, without modifying the script)? >> >> > > I haven't had to do Windows C++ development for many years, but there > used to be a vcvars.bat in each compiler installation, and you run the > one corresponding to the compiler & libraries you want.
Forcing it to use a different compiler than the one that was used to build Python itself, may very well lead to a non-working extension module. Irmen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list