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

[Michael Fox]

Forcing people to compile on windows is a big NO NO as only a small
amout of users have mingw or cygwin, so, i say put alink in the
installer where to download the file, along with the reason why it is
needed

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 10:55 -0600, Rodrigo Hernandez wrote:
> Well, I couldn't compile it by just defining some macros,
> seems like there is a lot of people who want to do so
> according to google, but not many that succeeded,
> lack of time seems to be the main issue as it seems to be not so trivial.
> 
> Timothy Baldridge wrote:
> > 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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