[Python-Dev] VS 2010 compiler

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

> I'm not sure why INADA Naoki's answer above wasn't sufficient for you?

It may be -- I've still have to test. Neither Windows nor py3 are my
primary production versions.

But the last time I tried the SDK approach was for py2.7 on Win64, and
it was both a pain, and impossible to set up to "just work" in my
highly secure environment.

So at best, it needs some serious documentation. And no, it shouldn't
be just a blog post somewhere (unless maybe Steve Dowers's blog).

Thus whole issue has been dogging python on windows for many years --
it never has been easy to find out what to do.

In fact, there are all sorts of Blog posts out there, with various
levels of out of date, conflicting, or just plain wrong advice.

A definitive version in the official docs would be a very good thing.

BTW, I think this is a good discussion:

https://github.com/cython/cython/wiki/CythonExtensionsOnWindows

But not everyone is going to think to look at the Cython Wiki...

-Chris


> You need to have the SDK compilers on your PATH (by running the
> relevant environment setting command) and you need to set the
> environment variable DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1 (this latter bit of
> information is hard to find documented, admittedly, but pretty well
> known).
>
> That basically gives you a Visual Studio 2010 equivalent environment.
> You'll still have all sorts of *other* problems building extensions on
> Windows, but unless I'm missing something important in what you were
> saying, getting a compiler isn't the issue.
>
> Paul