Greg Smith - 2009-03-30

I have been extensively searching if this has been done before, so far however most of my efforts have been in vain. I was curious if anyone has had much success with this? The company that I work for is currently demoing new Compositing software (Nuke) and I am trying to establish pipeline tools in order to connect it to our own asset management database which is driven by MySQL. This hasn't been much of an issue in the past as to most of our software was x86 32bit, however since the compositing software has a 64 bit version, we want to make the best of it. Nuke natively uses python as a scripting language however due to the 64 bit nature, any compiled python tools must also be 64 bit as well.

So I have tried to follow the compiling steps laid out in the Readme for 1.2.3b2 to compile for windows, however I keep getting an error stating:

error: Python was built with Visual Studio 2003;
extensions must be built with a compiler that can generate compatible binaries.
Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this syste,. if you have Cygwin installed. you can
try compiling with MingW32, by passing "-c mingw32" to setup.py.

Now I have Visual Studio 2005 installed, would this be incompatible.

Also I noticed in the build directory that the folder name had "win32" within it, does that mean its still trying to build a x86 build?
If it isn't readily apparent, I am not much of a programmer, mostly scripting. So when it comes to compiling builds it can get confusing for me.

Here's my setup:
WinXP Pro x64 editition SP2
AMD Opteron 2354
ActiveState ActivePython 2.5.1.1
MySQL 5.1.32-winx64
MS Visual Studio 2005
if I am forgetting anything else lemme know!

Any help would be truly appreciated!

thanks,
Greg