[python-win32] compilers to build pywin32

[David Fraser]

Mark Hammond wrote:

>>Any plans to implement .rowcount in the odbc module?
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>Not by me, but only due to the fact I don't personally use that module.
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>>I'm eyeballing the source at:
>>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pywin32/pywin32/win32/sr
>>c/odbc.cpp?rev=1.13&view=markup
>>and I MIGHT be able to hack together something with some hints on
>>which functions I need to edit, but I've never tried
>>building pywin32 from source, so I don't know which compiler is
>>required, etc.
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>It should be easy to build from source these days, particularly if you are
>going from CVS or will wait for build 203.  All you need is MSVC6 (for 2.3
>and earlier) or 7.1 (for 2.4).
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Is it not going to be possibile to use MSVC6 for 2.4 anymore? Rats. I 
really need to work on that MinGW compatibility ....

David