[pycrypto] Compiling on Windows tips

[Dave Pawson]

Thanks Max.
simple question, which of the n variants of Vis Studio should we install please?

regards

On 2 June 2015 at 06:25, Max Polk <maxpolk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have some notes for compiling pip packages on Windows that may be of use.
>
> To build pycrypto with Visual Studio Express 10, edit the python
> msvc9compiler.py, add the line here above the existing line:
>
>     ld_args.append('/MANIFEST')
>     ld_args.append('/MANIFESTFILE:' + temp_manifest)
>
> Then use this to build:
>
>     set VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS100COMNTOOLS%
>     python setup.py bdist_wininst
>
> The above creates an .exe in the dist directory such as
> pycrypto-2.5.win32-py2.7.exe
>
> In general, for various pip packages that require compiling on Windows such
> as tornado, to compile with Visual Studio from Python, trick Python into
> using an old variable name before calling pip install:
>
> Visual Studio 2010 (VS10):
> SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS100COMNTOOLS%
>
> Visual Studio 2012 (VS11):
> SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS110COMNTOOLS%
>
> Visual Studio 2013 (VS12):
> SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS120COMNTOOLS%
>
> If it is looking for Visual C++ 10, you will set VS100COMNTOOLS instead of
> setting VS90COMNTOOLS.
>
> The above worked for pip install tornado on Windows python 2 and 3.
>
>
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