[New-bugs-announce] [issue27324] Error when building Python extension

[Mark]

New submission from Mark:

I'd like to build a C++ extension for Python. I took a simple C file from a tutorial and wrote the setup.py file. But when I run the command:
python setup.py build_ext --inplace

I get the following error:
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

This file is located in "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\vc\vcvarsall.bat" but even when I run it and set all environment variables, python.exe still tries to find it. I added this path to the PATH but it didn't solve the issue.

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components: Distutils
messages: 268612
nosy: Mark53, dstufft, eric.araujo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Error when building Python extension
type: compile error
versions: Python 3.5

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