On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 04:54:45PM +0200, Pearu Peterson wrote: > > > Stefan van der Walt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The build is still failing on winXP 64-bit, as shown on the buildbot > > page > > > > http://buildbot.scipy.org/Windows%20XP%20x86_64%20MSVC/builds/25/step-shell/0 > > > > with the error > > > > AttributeError: MSVCCompiler instance has no attribute '_MSVCCompiler__root' > > > > Could someone familiar with the MSVC compilers please take a look? > > I think the problem is in the environment of the buildbot machine > `Windows XP x86_64 MSVC`. Basically, I would try setting the following > environment variables in this machine: > DISTUTILS_USE_SDK and MSSdk > Then the build might succeed. > > For more information, read the code in Python distutils/msvccompiler.py > file.
Thanks, Pearu -- I'll take a look. Why the uninformative error message, though? Isn't distutils supposed to automagically detect the MSVC compiler? Regards Stéfan _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
