An Attempt to download and install traits - to a Windows XP

Using >easy_install -v -fhttp://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/sourceenthought.traits

The result is:

...
* *many lines
...

copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\shell_editor_test .py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\table_editor_colo r_test.py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\table_editor_focu s_bug.py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\table_editor_test .py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\table_editor_test 2.py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\table_list_editor _test.py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\tree_editor_test. py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
running build_ext
error: Setup script exited with error:
Python was built with Visual Studio 2003;
extensions must be built with a compiler
than can generate compatible binaries.
Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this
system. If you have Cygwin installed,
you can try compiling with MingW32, by
passing "-c mingw32" to setup.py.

On Jul 25, 5:37 pm, "Colin J. Williams" <c...@ncf.cawrote:

>Using >easy_install -v -fhttp://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/sourceenthought.traits

The result is:

...
many lines
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copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\shell_editor_tes t.py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\table_editor_col or_test.py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\table_editor_foc us_bug.py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\table_editor_tes t.py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\table_editor_tes t2.py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\table_list_edito r_test.py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
copyingenthought\traits\ui\tests\tree_editor_test .py
->
build\lib.win32-2.5\enthought\traits\ui\tests
running build_ext
error: Setup script exited with error:
Python was built with Visual Studio 2003;
extensions must be built with a compiler
than can generate compatible binaries.
Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this
system. If you have Cygwin installed,
you can try compiling with MingW32, by
passing "-c mingw32" to setup.py.

Traits includes an extension module. You will need a suitable
compiler.

http://www.develer.com/oss/GccWinBinaries

To tell distutils to use this compiler for all extension modules,
create pydistutils.cfg file with the following contents:

[build_ext]
compiler=mingw32

See this page for details about this file:

http://docs.python.org/inst/config-syntax.html

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