<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Apr 12, 2010, at 16:36 , Martin v. Loewis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If you are planning to build Python extension modules in the next five</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">years, I recommend that you obtain a copy of VS Express</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Am I missing something here? I have heard this before, but I have built extension modules many times under windows (using Cython) and never once used a MS product. I've just had to change a distutils config file to use a different compiler (mingw32, directions here: <a href="http://docs.cython.org/src/tutorial/appendix.html">http://docs.cython.org/src/tutorial/appendix.html</a>). It seems to work fine. What is the basis of this claim that you need MS Visual Studio to do it?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>bb</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">-- </span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Brian Blais</div><div><a href="mailto:bblais@bryant.edu">bblais@bryant.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais">http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais</a></div><div><a href="http://bblais.blogspot.com">http://bblais.blogspot.com</a>/</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>