Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Mark Lawrence Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Installing ibm_db package on Windows 7, 64-bit problem Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:31:22 +0000 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <6b8f071a-f39a-4083-889a-4b381a2a1cd0@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de ULMH9sHqmAIsculHAiq83Ql9XYksqRn12b8y6ziCOZPA== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.05; 'installed.': 0.05; 'source.': 0.05; 'subject:Windows': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'url:blog': 0.10; 'python.': 0.11; 'thu,': 0.15; '2016': 0.16; 'alexander': 0.16; 'hmm.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'subject:bit': 0.16; 'url:visualstudio': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'basically': 0.18; 'url:au': 0.18; 'steve': 0.18; 'language': 0.19; 'windows': 0.20; '2015': 0.20; 'extension': 0.20; 'install,': 0.22; 'lawrence': 0.22; 'subject:problem': 0.22; 'url:edu': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'install': 0.25; "i've": 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; "doesn't": 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'chris': 0.26; 'helpful': 0.27; 'error': 0.27; 'attempting': 0.29; 'language.': 0.32; 'source': 0.33; 'could': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'visual': 0.36; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.36; 'pm,': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'there,': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'link.': 0.37; 'minimum': 0.38; 'takes': 0.39; 'subject:-': 0.39; 'build': 0.40; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'mark': 0.40; 'high': 0.60; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62; 'here:': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'hours': 0.65; 'mar': 0.65; 'broadband': 0.66; 'choices:': 0.84; 'pythonistas,': 0.84; 'wheels': 0.84; 'edition': 0.86; 'look.': 0.91; 'colleagues': 0.97 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.234.129.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:104488 On 10/03/2016 08:09, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Alexander Shmugliakov > wrote: > > Hmm. I don't understand the warning there, but the final error is > pretty straight-forward: you cannot build a package from source > without having Visual Studio installed. Sadly, my usual go-to source > for Windows wheels doesn't have ibm_db: > > http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ > > but that's definitely the first place to look. > > You basically have two choices: > > 1) Install the zero-dollar edition of Visual Studio 2015 (I think it's > available from https://www.visualstudio.com/ but I've never actually > used it, so don't depend on my advice), and build the extension from > source. You may find Steve Dower's blog helpful here: > http://stevedower.id.au/blog/building-for-python-3-5/ > I've used it repeatedly with no problems, other than the fact that it takes hours to download and install, even with a high speed broadband link. Steve Dower is attempting to get his Microsoft colleagues to produce a bare minimum that could be used to build Python. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence