Re: [Python-sybase-misc] Installing python-sybase on Windows XP

[<sk...@po...>]

    Jeffrey> First of all, the installation documents states that the
    Jeffrey> "Micorsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition compiler can be
    Jeffrey> freely downloaded and used".  I have done that and when I try
    Jeffrey> to install python-sybase on Windows (with Python 2.5.4), I get
    Jeffrey> the following error:

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

    Jeffrey> I do not have access to Visual Studio 2003.

How about building Python with the Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition or
building Python and the Sybase extension with Cygwin?

(Like Sébastien, I don't use Windows, so I can only offer suggestions, not
give you a concrete set of instructions.)

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