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Building extensions with MSVC 2015 Express fails #70037

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SamiSalonen mannequin opened this issue Dec 12, 2015 · 6 comments
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Building extensions with MSVC 2015 Express fails #70037

SamiSalonen mannequin opened this issue Dec 12, 2015 · 6 comments
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SamiSalonen mannequin commented Dec 12, 2015

BPO 25850
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assignee = 'https://github.com/zooba'
closed_at = <Date 2016-01-16.20:41:48.996>
created_at = <Date 2015-12-12.21:20:25.416>
labels = ['extension-modules', 'type-bug', 'library', 'OS-windows']
title = 'Building extensions with MSVC 2015 Express fails'
updated_at = <Date 2016-01-26.13:10:03.877>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/SamiSalonen'

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activity = <Date 2016-01-26.13:10:03.877>
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components = ['Distutils', 'Extension Modules', 'Windows']
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creator = 'Sami Salonen'
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue25850'
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SamiSalonen mannequin commented Dec 12, 2015

MSVC 2015 Express doesn't include the 64-bit compiler [1], and this causes distutils to fail to load proper compiler settings when using a 64-bit machine to compile extensions for 64-bit python. _msvccompiler.py tries to call "vcvarsall.bat amd64", but the VC\bin\amd64 directory contains only one file "vcmeta.dll".

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9(v=vs.140).aspx

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zware commented Dec 13, 2015

I'm inclined to close this as 'not a bug'. There's not much we can do about that (if you want 64 bit extensions, you need a 64 bit compiler), and 2015 Community Edition does include the 64 bit compiler (if you select it).

I'm not sure if there's anything to be done in distutils to handle things more gracefully.

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zooba commented Dec 13, 2015

There is: we can fall back on the cross compilers if the native ones are not there.

Not a huge change, and safe enough.

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python-dev mannequin commented Jan 16, 2016

New changeset fc117df27143 by Steve Dower in branch '3.5':
Issue bpo-25850: Use cross-compilation by default for 64-bit Windows.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/fc117df27143

New changeset 37dc870175be by Steve Dower in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-25850: Use cross-compilation by default for 64-bit Windows.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/37dc870175be

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zooba commented Jan 16, 2016

For anyone interested, there's no issue with using the cross compilers even on a 64-bit system. The same code will be generated, the only difference is that the native 64-bit compilers can keep more in memory than the 32-bit cross compilers. For most Python extensions this won't matter (it matters for building huge projects like an operating system).

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test_distutils is now failing on "AMD64 Windows7 SP1 3.x" buildbot: please see issue bpo-26207.

@ezio-melotti ezio-melotti transferred this issue from another repository Apr 10, 2022
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