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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py index d24d0ac..0d72837 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py @@ -131,8 +131,10 @@ class MacroExpander: self.set_macro("FrameworkSDKDir", net, "sdkinstallroot") except KeyError, exc: # raise DistutilsPlatformError, \ - ("The .NET Framework SDK needs to be installed before " - "building extensions for Python.") + ("""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.""") p = r"Software\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\Product" for base in HKEYS: @@ -237,7 +239,7 @@ class MSVCCompiler (CCompiler) : def initialize(self): self.__paths = [] - if os.environ.has_key("MSSdk") and self.find_exe("cl.exe"): + if os.environ.has_key("DISTUTILS_USE_SDK") and os.environ.has_key("MSSdk") and self.find_exe("cl.exe"): # Assume that the SDK set up everything alright; don't try to be # smarter self.cc = "cl.exe" |