Dulwich C extensions and stand-alone Windows installation of bzr

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On 09/04/2011 05:41 PM, Martin (gzlist) wrote:
> On 04/09/2011, Eli Zaretskii<eliz at gnu.org>  wrote:
>> Thanks.  But how do I produce the *.pyd files?  There are none in the
>> dulwich tarball.
> This works* for me:
>
>      bzr branch lp:dulwich
>      cd dulwich
>      setup.py install_lib -d \path\to\site-packages
>
> You'll need the right version of msvc for your python version as per
> usual when dealing with python extensions that need a C compiler.
>
> Martin
>
>
> *Actually, it doesn't quite, but does when I use a Python built using
> vc9 which supplies strnlen unlike the older C runtime.
This requires a python interpreter which Eli doesn't have available - as 
far as I understand it's not included with the standalone windows installer.

Cheers,

Jelmer