Re: [Pymedia-users] Tutorial for ripping a CD AUDIO TRACK to a wav file]

[Matthias B. <ba...@ir...>]

Jean-Marc Chourot wrote:
> Also, I wish someone could help me generally with compiling modules  : I do
> not have Visual C++ and it is a pain in the neck to compile with MingW or
> Cygwin (still cannot do it for Pymedia and/or the lame lib / OGG /..).
> WHY DO PYTHON father's not use GNU tools instead of these expensive tools ?

I'd just like to mention that MS has also released a free version of 
their compiler (just the command line tools, no IDE):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

However, I believe it won't help you compiling Python modules for the 
official Python binary as that one was compiled with VC6 and the above 
toolkit is newer (but I've never tried it myself as we have VC6 here).
Anyway, I just thought you might be interested to know about the above 
toolkit...

Cheers,

- Matthias -