Download Microsoft C/C++ compiler for use with Python 2.6/2.7 ASAP

[sturlamolden]

On 6 Jul, 18:21, Thomas Jollans <tho... at jollans.com> wrote:

> mingw gcc should work for building C++ extensions if it also works for C
> extensions.

No, it uses an incompatible statically linked C++ runtime. We need to
use msvcp90.dll with Python 2.6/2.7.


> As for amd64 - I do not know if there is a mingw64 release for windows
> already. If there isn't, there should be ;-)

There is. But it does not have an import library for msvcr90.dll. It's
omitted from mingw-w64. Also libpython26.a is missing from Python on
Windows 64.


> Also, VS2010 should work as well - doesn't it?

The problem with Microsoft's compilers is that they just let you pick
between two CRTs (single- or multi-threaded). We need to specify the
version number as well.

So no, VS2010 will not work. (At least not without some ugly hacks.)