[Distutils] Problem compiling Extensions on Win32

[G D]

On February 4, 2004, Thomas Heller wrote:

> We just had this issue - distutils doesn't pick up the usual environment
> variables.  It only reads from the registry.  Look into the sources for
> distutils/msvccompiler.py.  On my machine, the directories are in the
> registry as values of the key
> 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DevStudio\6.0\Build System\Components\Platforms\Win32 (x86)\Directories
> 
> Is this key present on your machine, and has it 'Include Dirs', 'Library
> Dirs', and 'Path Dirs' values?

You were correct, having installed VC6 only to compile this module from the commandline I hadn't even opened up the VisualStudio...  It appears the only thing in the registry is "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DevStudio\6.0\Build System\Components\Platforms\Win32 (x86)\Tools" before you open VisualStudio.   Once open the registry fills with everything accept Directories which appear in the registry on closing VisualStudio.

Adding my Includes in VisualStudio, I was able to get through the first couple of modules without problem, it died later on when the copiler was passed a -Wall parameter (a bug perhaps?):
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\BIN\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3
/GX /DNDEBUG -IC:\!OSS\Zope-2.7.0-rc2\bin\include -IC:\!OSS\Zope-2.7.0-rc2\bin\P
C /Tcsrc/python-Levenshtein-0.7/Levenshtein.c /Fobuild\temp.win32-2.3\Release\sr
c/python-Levenshtein-0.7/Levenshtein.obj -Wall
Command line error D2021 : invalid numeric argument '/Wall'
error: command '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\BIN\cl.exe"' fail
ed with exit status 2

I manually executed that compiler command line without the -Wall and the module built and then I was able to complete the compiling by reissuing 'python setup.py build'

Thanks again for your help

-Garth


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