Hello, I have a small remark concerning msvc 7.0 and the pre-compiled version of python in windows. Recently I tried to compile the source-code for a library named PyMat, a link between python and matlab. I wanted to use this library in windows with python2.3. I tried to compile with microsoft visual c++ 7.0 ( NET ) and disutils. The pre-compiled version of python 2.3 is however compiled with msvc 6.0... This seemed to be a problem for disutils. I recieved following error/ following exception is raised: "error: Python was built with version 6 of Visual Studio, and extensions need to be built with the same version of the compiler, but it isn't installed." Thx to google, I found the following sollution: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/patches/2004-May/014807.html In $python_root$/lib/disutils/msvccompiler.py you have to comment out some lines (approx: line 214) ## if len (self.__paths) == 0: ## raise DistutilsPlatformError, \ ## ("Python was built with version %s of Visual Studio, " ## "and extensions need to be built with the same " ## "version of the compiler, but it isn't installed." % self.__version)The compiled library works correct. The library compiled and seems to work correct! Now my question is: is it absolutely necessary to compile everything with the same msvc as python is compiled with? If not, is the line in msvccompiler.py absolutely necessary? Could this be replaced with a warning, instead of raising an exception? Simply aborting completely the compilation proces seems kind of drastic. greetz and thx for reading so far Peter ps. I presume this problem still is present in python 2.4, because msvccompiler.py still contains the conflicting lines in the cvs-version...