[issue26629] Need an ability to build standard DLLs with distutils

Irit Katriel added the comment: distutils is deprecated and python 2.7 is past EOL. -- nosy: +iritkatriel resolution: -> out of date stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue26629] Need an ability to build standard DLLs with distutils

Steve Dower added the comment: Oh, and just saw that you're apparently asking about 2.7. I was referring to the 3.5 sources for distutils, so some things may be different in 2.7. But I doubt distutils has changed that much since then. -- ___ Python

[issue26629] Need an ability to build standard DLLs with distutils

Steve Dower added the comment: (Obligatory recommendation that you use Cython rather than ctypes, especially if you're going to require your users to have a compiler handy - in general this isn't recommended on Windows at all; make sure you distribute wheels if you want to make your users'

[issue26629] Need an ability to build standard DLLs with distutils

New submission from Buraddin Ibn-Karlo: I want to make a a dynamic library to run its function with ctypes. Also I want to build the library from sources with distutils (the C++ sources are distributed with my Python code). But alas! Our distutils fails, if the library doesn't have