[Bf-committers] Blender 2.45 Release MSVCR71.DLL problem?

[Timothy Baldridge]

As per my comments before, from the distutils documentation:

11.4 distutils.msvccompiler -- Microsoft Compiler

This module provides MSVCCompiler, an implementation of the abstract
CCompiler class for Microsoft Visual Studio. Typically, extension
modules need to be compiled with the same compiler that was used to
compile Python. For Python 2.3 and earlier, the compiler was Visual
Studio 6. For Python 2.4 and 2.5, the compiler is Visual Studio .NET
2003. The AMD64 and Itanium binaries are created using the Platform
SDK.

MSVCCompiler will normally choose the right compiler, linker etc. on
its own. To override this choice, the environment variables
DISTUTILS_USE_SDK and MSSdk must be both set. MSSdk indicates that the
current environment has been setup by the SDK's SetEnv.Cmd script, or
that the environment variables had been registered when the SDK was
installed; DISTUTILS_USE_SDK indicates that the distutils user has
made an explicit choice to override the compiler selection by
MSVCCompiler.

Timothy

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