Enrico Ng wrote:

Is there a way to change the compiler arguments that are added by distutils. NDEBUG is causing problems. The distutils documentation suggests undef_macros, but this does not do anything to help.

There isn't: you have to edit msvccompiler.py (.compile_options) or use a hack like the following: # # mx MSVC Compiler extension # # We want some extra options for the MSVCCompiler, so we add them # here. This is an awful hack, but there seems to be no other way to # subclass a standard distutils C compiler class... from distutils.msvccompiler import MSVCCompiler # remember old __init__ old_MSVCCompiler__init__ = MSVCCompiler.__init__ def mx_msvccompiler__init__(self, *args, **kws): apply(old_MSVCCompiler__init__, (self,) + args, kws) self.compile_options.extend(['/O2','/Gf','/GB','/GD', '/Ob2']) # "Install" new __init__ MSVCCompiler.__init__ = mx_msvccompiler__init__ -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Software directly from the Source (#1, Jun 05 2003)

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