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Author MarcMarc
Recipients MarcMarc, tarek
Date 2009-05-08.14:03:45
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Message-id <1241791427.1.0.931613951559.issue5969@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Hi, 

I have the M$ Platform SDK installed, which 
is a free (as don't pay) alternative to 
VisualStudio.   

in order to achieve a successful compile with 
setup.py build on the Platform SDK I 
had to add the following change in 
distutils/msvc9compiler.py: 

Best regards
Marc 

Patch draft:

def find_vcvarsall(version):
       
+   vcvarsall = os.path.join(productdir+"\\bin", "vcvars32.bat")
-   vcvarsall = os.path.join(productdir, "vcvarall.bat")

 
   if os.path.isfile(vcvarsall):
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Date User Action Args
2009-05-08 14:03:47MarcMarcsetrecipients: + MarcMarc, tarek
2009-05-08 14:03:47MarcMarcsetmessageid: <1241791427.1.0.931613951559.issue5969@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-05-08 14:03:45MarcMarclinkissue5969 messages
2009-05-08 14:03:45MarcMarccreate