"Scott" <sc**********@CS.Princeton.EDU> wrote:
The trouble I have is that there are no PC or PCbuild
subdirectories in C:\Python24. Where do I find these?
As the quoted URL says (2nd para):
"""
To build extensions using these instructions, you need to have a copy
of the Python sources of the same version as your installed Python.
[snip]
The example files described here are distributed with the Python
sources in the PC\ example_nt\ directory
"""
i.e. you have to download a copy of the Python source distribution.
Since I had an include directory, I assumed (incorrectly) that
I already had the sources. Thanks for the reiteration -- it's
what I needed.
here's another iteration: the top of that page says:
"There are two approaches to building extension modules on Windows,
just as there are on Unix: use the distutils package to control the
build process, or do things manually. The distutils approach works
well for most extensions; documentation on using distutils to
build and package extension modules is available in "Distributing
Python Modules". This section describes the manual approach to
building Python extensions written in C or C++. "
if you're not 100% sure what you're doing, and why you need to use the
manual approach (you don't), *please* use the distutils solution. here's
a minimal setup script:
from distutils.core import setup, Extension
setup(
name="mymodule",
ext_modules = [Extension("mymodule", ["mymodule.c"])]
)
to build, use "python setup.py build". to build a local copy ("in place"), use
"python setup.py build_ext -i". to build and install, use "python setup.py
install".
no need to download any extra stuff; it just works.
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