[Distutils] test for compiler on Windows?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Just van Rossum wrote:
> On Windows, how can I detect in my setup.py whether there is a compiler
> available? I have one C extension in my package which is entirely optional, and
> I would like "python setup.py install" to skip building the extension if there's
> no compiler available.

The best way to do this is to subclass the build_ext command
and make compiling the extension optional.

See mxSetup.py in the latest egenix-mx-base beta for an example.

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