[Distutils] Building Python extensions on 64-bit Windows using the SDK compilers

[Chris Barker]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the pointer. (Also thanks to Allen Riddell). I'll take a
> look. Ideally, what I'd like to do is write something up to help
> non-Windows experts get things up and running, so this will be very
> useful.
>

Thanks -- that would be great. But really, why is this so hard? Win64 is
essentially One platform, and the freely available SDK is ONE compiler
environment.

surely it's possible to write a batch script of some sort that you could
put somewhere (or even deliver with python! ) so this would be:

1) download and install THIS (the sdk from MS)

2) run:
    set_up_win_complier.py

3) build the package:
    python setup.py build

without needing to do multiple step, without needing to be in the special
set-up command Window, etc.

In fact, even better would be for distutils to run the mythical
"set_up_win_complier.py" script for you.

distutils does work "out of the box" with the VS2008 Express for 32 bit --
I'm still confused why this is so much harder for 64 bit.

*sigh*

-Chris






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