Hi Paul, I don't know how Olivier Grisel did it, but I can testify it does build extensions for Windows (32bit and 64bit) using appveyor.
https://github.com/ogrisel/python-appveyor-demo/ Best wishes, Allen On Tue, Sep 23, 2014, at 06:42 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > Can anyone give me some advice, please? I am trying to build > extensions on Windows 64-bit, using the free Windows SDK compilers. > But I can't find any official documentation on how to do this, and > everything I have tried so far has failed in frustrating ways. I'm now > at the point where I appear to be hitting the following bug - > http://bugs.python.org/issue7511 which has stumped me completely. > Sadly, as is typical with distutils issues, this one seems to have > been round for years and there is little or no sign that anyone is > willing to fix it. > > Two questions, really: > > * Is there any intention that building extensions with the SDK > compilers is supported? > * How do I do it, if so? > > Personally, this is of limited relevance, as I have the full version > of MSVC available. But I'm trying to put together some documentation > for package developers on how to build Windows wheels, in particular > using Appveyor to automate the process, with the intention that people > shouldn't have to jump through hoops to provide wheels, but should > rather be able to simply use a prebuilt recipe to automate the > process. > > As an alternative, I wonder whether Microsoft would be willing to > support Appveyor by providing them with access to the full version of > MSVC (2008 and 2010) for the build workers? Steve - do you know if > there's any possibility of something like that? > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig