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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py index c96d527..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, \ - ("Visual Studio 2003 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: |