On 19/01/07, Howard Lightstone
I am unable to rebuild things using disutils using Visual Studio 2005. I get reports of "No compiler found".
Since VC8 is the only thing available in the future (from Micro$soft), is there any progress toward updating distuils to allow this compiler (and its own locations....) to be supported?
If you want to build extensions with VS 2005, you need to build Python with that compiler. At present, the Windows binaries of Python are built with VC 7.1 (VS 2003). Sadly, MS no longer make the free VC 7.1 compiler ("Toolkit compiler") available, otherwise you could use that (you may still be able to find it somewhere, or persuade someone to send you a copy). So, unless you're building your own Python executable, you can't use VS 2005 regardless of distutils support. On the other hand, mingw gcc is fully supported, if that's an option for you. Paul.