[Distutils] changing default compiler

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Enrico Sirola wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> i wrote a C++ extention module, but distutils keep trying to compile
> it as a plain C interface one. Is t possible it's confused by my
> strange platform name?
> 
> from sys import platform
> print platform
> 
> gives out
> 
> linux2
> 
> This is prolly non standard, but maybe it's becouse i'm using a beta
> distro (progeny debian)...
> Anyway everithing works if i run compiler commands by hand (changing
> gcc to g++) and finally type "python setup.py install".
> So, how can i force distutils to use g++ instead of gcc?

Try the --compiler option to the build_ext command. Note that
build_ext is not yet up to compiling C++ code. For gcc a simple
renaming of the source file to .cc or .cxx will let gcc compile
the file as C++ without any additional options.

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