[gdal-dev] GDAL & Python

[Christopher Barker]

marco.pasetti at alice.it wrote:
> Now I have the following error:
>  
> error: Python was built with Visual Studio 2003;
> extensions must be built with a compiler than can generate compatible 
> binaries.
> Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this system. If you have Cygwin 
> installed,
> you can try compiling with MingW32, by passing "-c mingw32" to setup.py.

Darn. If you have the energy, it would be great to file a feature 
request for distutils -- it is so close, in that it now supports 
mingw32, but why can't it give it a try when VS is not found?

Oh well.

> must I directly hack makefile? (hope not!)

Others would know better than me if there is a configure variable that 
can get set with flags for distutils, but it may be easier to just run 
the setup.py build line yourself. I'm not set up to test right now, but 
it should be something like:

cd swig/python

C:/python25/python.exe setup.py -c mingw32 build

(you may need to run that at a regular DOS prompt, I can't seem to run 
Windows python from msys)

-Chris


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