[Distutils] Compile Windows64 AMD64

[Alexander Michael]

On 5/20/07, Alexander Michael <lxander.m at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/18/07, Mowry, Peter <peter.mowry at amd.com> wrote:
> >
> >  So I tried ctypes, and it just worked (without any build issues - in
> > fact I didn't have to build anything or write any code).  Is there any
> > reason I'd want to write an extend python module (to load my shared library
> > and run exported functions from it) that compiles with distutils, instead of
> > just using ctypes?  Thanks
> >
> If I can accomplish the task with ctypes, I use it. While distutils
> generally does a good job with compiling extension modules, using ctypes
> allows you to avoid distributing platform specific packages which will make
> your life a bit easier. Additionally, I find it faster to work with ctypes
> as I can avoid the compile step required for developing extension module.
>
> While ctypes is part of Python 2.5, your users will need to install it for
> Python 2.3 and 2.4. If you need to target earlier versions of Python (*not
> as typical these days), then ctypes won't work for you. Unfortunately,
> ctypes is not available as an egg, so you won't be able to take advantage of
> setuptool's easy_install to ensure that your user has installed all the
> dependencies.
>

Correction: Apparently easy_install handles source packages that aren't
eggs, so scratch my scratch comment as it looks like you can specify ctypes
as a dependency in order to ensure that it is installed.
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