<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>I did download and try vs 2008, see my last post. I'm on the road today and don't have access to my machine.<br><br><br><span style="font-size:87%">Sent from my phone</span> <br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>Subject: [tahoe-dev] Python 2.7 Windows build Re: Announcing Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.2 <br>From: Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko@zooko.com> <br>To: Tahoe-LAFS development <tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org> <br>CC: <br><br><br><div style="word-break:break-all;">Dear Paul Grunwald:<br><br>Thank you for your persistence on this. :-)<br><br>Here's some context about how our build system works, or in this case<br>how it fails to work:<br><br>https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/CompileError<br><br>The dependency which failed to build for you is pycryptopp, which<br>happens to be one that we (especially I) am responsible for<br>maintaining.<br><br>Now, I'm looking at the pycryptopp buildbots and I see that there are<br>some Windows buildbots that successfully built: Dcoder's Win7-64-py26,<br>FreeStorm's mingw32-py26, and marcusw's cygwin:<br><br>https://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot-pycryptopp/waterfall<br><br>One thing that these all have in common with each other and not with<br>your system is that they are using Python 2.6 and you're using Python<br>2.7.<br><br>Hm, according to this mailing list post --<br>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-April/573606.html --<br>and this blog --<br>http://blog.victorjabur.com/2011/06/05/compiling-python-2-7-modules-on-windows-32-and-64-using-msvc-2008-express/<br>-- one cannot build extension modules for Python 2.7 on Windows unless<br>one has a Microsoft compiler -- VS 2008 -- that is no longer<br>available. :-( What a stupid... ...<br><br>*sigh*<br><br>Want to try to figure out how to build extension modules with mingw32,<br>mingw-w64, or tdm-gcc? :-) I recently posted a letter to G+ claiming<br>that this was possible, although I haven't done it recently:<br><br>https://plus.google.com/108313527900507320366/posts/Mvk7rWGXm8o<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Zooko<br>_______________________________________________<br>tahoe-dev mailing list<br>tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org<br>https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev<br></div> </body>