From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:31:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Complain about missing VS 2003 in the error message
X-Git-Tag: v2.4.4c1~140
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c005e2e1cbc4fa38ee355368732dd949dc3d4c41;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Complain about missing VS 2003 in the error message
of msvccompiler, and mention Cygwin as an alternative.
Fixes #1257728.
---

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
index 46e2cd31af38..8ed987e5188e 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
@@ -131,8 +131,10 @@ class MacroExpander:
                 self.set_macro("FrameworkSDKDir", net, "sdkinstallroot")
         except KeyError, exc: #
             raise DistutilsPlatformError, \
-                  ("The .NET Framework SDK needs to be installed before "
-                   "building extensions for Python.")
+                  ("""Python was built with Visual Studio 2003;
+extensions must be built with a compiler than can generate compatible binaries.
+Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this system. If you have Cygwin installed,
+you can try compiling with MingW32, by passing "-c mingw32" to setup.py.""")
 
         p = r"Software\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\Product"
         for base in HKEYS:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 82872a8ff11a..87bc4a3e774f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- Bug #1257728: Complain about missing VS 2003 in the error message
+  of msvccompiler, and mention Cygwin as an alternative.
+
 - Bug #1002398: The documentation for os.path.sameopenfile now correctly
   refers to file descriptors, not file objects.