[Distutils] non-"standard" compilers...

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 27, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Nicholas Bastin wrote:

> On 5/27/05, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>
>> At 12:15 PM 5/27/2005 -0400, Nicholas Bastin wrote:
>>
>>> Also, I'm assuming this is only true on unix?  Win32 seems to pick
>>> MSVC no matter what (and complain a lot if you don't have it).
>>>
>>
>> That's because MSVC is the only supported compiler for Python on that
>> platform.  There has been some work on supporting the MinGW  
>> compiler, and
>> the MinGW compiler can be used to build extensions that work on  
>> Windows,
>> but nobody has done any work on supporting any other compilers  
>> that I know of.
>>
>
> The Intel C++ compiler works perfectly well (we build and ship using
> this compiler).  However, because we do this, we can't use any
> distutils-distributed extension modules, because they complain that we
> don't have the .NET runtime or some such.  I usually just try to
> construct makefiles for the extension modules in each package, and
> that works reasonably well for most extensions.
>
> Also, does distutils support the notion of installation a 'FAT'
> distribution?  We also have to tear each install apart to put the .py
> files in a platform independent place, and the .pyd's in a
> platform-specific location, which usually involves a lot of magic
> tricks when the .pyd's are imported as part of a package.

No, it doesn't.  I've done this too, it basically involves the same  
trick that py2app and ilk use to put an extension module in a zip  
file.  Replace the extension with a .py that knows where to look for  
a platform-specific extension to import.

Or, simply have an 'OBESE' distribution where you have a copy of  
everything for every platform :)

-bob