Windows install, snapshots and empty files

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:18:22 +0100, Stephen Darnell wrote:

> On a setup related point, dist utils complains if the right version of
> Visual C is not installed (ActiveState 2.4.1 requires VC7.1),
> ActiveState 2.3.5 requires VC6). I have VC6 but would prefer to go with 
> Python2.4
> 
> Is there any way of overriding the complaint, and is it likely to cause any
> problems?  (-c msvc doesn't override the check)

Two possible solutions:

* The two-steps process

python setup.py build -c msvc
python setup.py install --skip-build

* create or edit the distutils.cfg file in the directory where
distutils is installed, and add the following two lines:

[build_ext]
compiler=msvc

HTH

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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