Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ralph Heinkel Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Compiling Python (modules) on 64bit Windows - which compiler suite? Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:34:58 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 14 Message-ID: <11748169.44.1332441298178.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbp15> References: <808abad4-3ab3-4336-8a31-2f88eb28be01@v22g2000vby.googlegroups.com> <13033772.7.1332374778471.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjk1> NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.21.246.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1332441392 9496 127.0.0.1 (22 Mar 2012 18:36:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:36:32 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <13033772.7.1332374778471.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjk1> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=91.21.246.122; posting-account=guY1eQoAAADzxhcFJLpnkz1Lk6w6B5lo User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Received-Bytes: 1691 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:22038 > > See "Compiling 64-bit extension modules on Windows" at . It applies to non-Cython extensions as well. > > MinGW-w64 also works, but you'll have to generate and use libpythonXX.a and libmsvcr90.a link libraries. > > Christoph Thanks to everyone who has replied to my question. Especially for the link/hint to use the .NET SDK which indeed seems to provide the right tools for 64bit compilation. I'm going to try this and report back here. Cheers, Ralph