[issue8597] build out-of-line asm on Windows

Stefan Krah added the comment: The patches are very similar. This one always chooses ml64 on a 64 bit platform, even when a user has executed `vcvarsall x86`. The patch in #7546 attempts to honor the environment and has unit tests, so I'm making #7546 the superseder. -- resolution: ->

[issue8597] build out-of-line asm on Windows

Samuel Neves added the comment: I was unaware of patch #7456 when this was submitted. As far as I can tell, there is no difference and no reason to maintain both. -- nosy: +sneves ___ Python tracker __

[issue8597] build out-of-line asm on Windows

Éric Araujo added the comment: I have a hard time reading old-style diffs, so a unified diff would be a win. Alternatively, a Mercurial clone URI would do. Can someone confirm this is a duplicate of #7546 as hinted by Stefan or explain the difference? I’m a bit too sleepy to do that and anywa

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Tarek Ziadé added the comment: Distutils is frozen, switching to distutils2 -- components: +Distutils2 -Distutils ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue8597] build out-of-line asm on Windows

Stefan Krah added the comment: I think this is a duplicate of issue 7546. -- nosy: +skrah type: behavior -> feature request ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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[issue8597] build out-of-line asm on Windows

New submission from Zooko O'Whielacronx : I maintain a Python package which comes with assembly optimizations -- http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp . Someone was porting this package to Win64 today and discovered that distutils couldn't build it because the Microsoft compiler on Win64 doesn