[Python-Dev] Python 2.4, MS .NET 1.1 and distutils

[Thomas Heller]

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> writes:

> I just tried to compile some extensions on Win XP with .NET 1.1
> and Python 2.4c1 installed.
>
> It turns out that the distutils recognition logic for finding
> a suitable C compiler is not able to find the compiler by simply
> looking at the PATH, INCLUDE and LIB settings of the OS instead
> of poking around in the registry :-)
>
> Now since extensions for 2.4 will have to be built using the
> same compiler as Python itself (the one that comes with VC7.1
> which is the same as the one in the freely downloadable
> .NET 1.1 SDK), I would suggest to make distutils aware of the
> compiler by looking on the PATH in case the registry doesn't
> have the VC7.1 entries.

I always wondered if non-present registry entries wouldn't mean that the
MSVC installation is broken.  OTOH, I always used the official MS IDEs,
and never tried their free compilers - is this desire related to the
free ones?

Thomas