On Thursday 17 July 2003 6:27 pm, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:08:14PM -0400, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> > When I run setup.py install on Windows, I get an error that
> > cl.exe cannot be found.  (cl.exe is the name of the windows C
> > compiler.)
>
> You need to comment out the line:
>
>     kw['ext_modules'].append(htmltext)

easy enuf.

> in setup.py.  Perhaps we should change it so the default it to not
> compile _c_htmltext on Windows.

+1

Couldn't setup.py also branch based on the platform?


> > If this is the correct behavior, how can I build an installer for
> > Windows users that don't have cl.exe?
>
> Perhaps it's not in the PATH.  I'm not a Windows expert though.

i specifically renamed cl.exe off the path to duplicate the error.

>
> BTW,  I've heard that Microsoft's C++ command line tools are free
> to download.

free as in beer ... not as in market.  ;-)

regards,

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