[Distutils] What do I need to run setup.py on Windows?

[Mark Sienkiewicz]

Never mind this question.  Somebody here noticed this item on the menu:  Start->All Programs->Microsoft Windows SDK v7.1 ->Windows SDK 7.1 Command Prompt

This runs a batch job that appears to set up a working environment for the compiler.  From that prompt, you can type "setup.py build" or "setup.py install".



On 02/13/12 18:04, Mark Sienkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use "setup.py install" to install python packages that include C extensions.  I have Windows/XP, the 32 bit Python 2.7 binary downloaded from python.org and the 32 bit numpy binary downloaded from numpy.org.
>
> I don't seem to be able to get a working C compiler.
>
> At first, I read that you need Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2008.  This is a 32 bit only C/C++ compiler, but that is ok because the Python and Numpy that I need are 32 bit executables.
>
> Well, I still get errors about a missing "basetsd.h".  The solution I found online is to install "Windows SDK", which I found at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=18950
>
> The heading at the top of the page says "Windows 7", but under "Supported Operating Systems" it lists Windows/XP.
>
> I still get errors because basetsd.h is not found.  In the interests of seeing if anything works at all, I made an empty file named c:\Python27\include\basetsd.h hoping I might get to see some different errors.
>
> I did.  Apparently, basetsd.h does not contain anything I need, because "setup.py build" can compile the C code now.  The link stage fails like this:
>
> c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\link.exe /DLL /nologo /INCREMENTAL:NO /LIBPATH:C:\Python27\libs /LIBPATH:C:\Pyth
> on27\PCbuild /EXPORT:init_combine build\temp.win32-2.7\Release\src/_combinemodule.obj /OUT:build\lib.win32-2.7\stsci\image\_combine.
> pyd /IMPLIB:build\temp.win32-2.7\Release\src\_combine.lib /MANIFESTFILE:build\temp.win32-2.7\Release\src\_combine.pyd.manifest
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'kernel32.lib'
> error: command '"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\link.exe"' failed with exit status 1104
>
>
> So, somehow I need to have basetsd.h and kernel32.lib; neither of them is provided by the compiler and neither is provided by Windows SDK.
>
> I've run out of ideas about where to look for documentation and what other things to try.  Can anybody offer me any suggestions?
>
> Mark S.
>
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