Hi,

The API reference for distutils tells how to get an instance of a new compiler sub-class with the following command:

mycompiler = distutils.ccompiler.new_compiler(plat=None, compiler=None, verbose=0, dry_run=0, force=0)

The API also specifies the commands to modify specific parameters within the returned compiler sub-class. However the API says nothing about how to actually "use" the new sub-class. In other words, how does one go about getting the following to work (or something similar)?

python setup.py build

where the build steps now use 'mycompiler'

Thanks,

-Simon