Re: [Quantlib-dev] Use QuantLib Swig Python Extension with VS2010

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

Nando,
    I agree with VC2008 being the preferred compiler for the Python
module, but what do you mean with "QL is not friendly with VC2010"?

Luigi

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Ferdinando Ametrano <na...@am...> wrote:
> Hi Micheal
>
> in order to achieve your goal you should compile Python with VC2010,
> or Pyhton and QL bindings would never link.
> Anyway that is definitely not the suggested way to go, as you might
> discover that also QL is not friendly with VC2010.
>
> Try to go back to VC2008. I for one would probably just skip VC2010 altogheter
>
> ciao -- Nando
>
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Michael <mdr...@we...> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm trying to compile the python swig extension. Unfortunately this is not
>> working. My current setup looks like this.
>>
>> - QuantLib Version 1.1
>> - Python Version 2.7.2
>> - Visual Studio 2010 SP1
>>
>> When I try to compile the python swig extensions I get the following error:
>>
>> running build
>> running build_py
>> running build_ext
>> building 'QuantLib._QuantLib' extension
>> error: Unable to find vcvarsall.ba
>>
>> I googled for solutions, but all the indications I found were similar to
>> what I found here:
>>
>> http://slacy.com/blog/2010/09/python-unable-to-find-vcvarsall-bat/
>>
>> Essentially the problem seems to be: python 2.7 is only "designed" to be
>> compiled with VS2008 (and before) and you can not mix a (pre)compiled python
>> 2.7 with libraries compiled with VS2010.
>>
>> Now, it is not that easy to have an older version of VS installed on my
>> system and in any case I would really prefer to stick with VS2010.
>>
>> The question is: does anybody have a similar setup to mine and was able to
>> compile the python swig extensions? If so, did you have to change things and
>> what exactly has it been?
>>
>> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Michael
>>
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