error: 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.
I don't have Visual Studio 2003 and therefore I try to follow the msg to download MingW32. Here are the steps:
1. Download MinGW from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ and install. It seems we better install the complier in default folder location c:\MinGW.
2. During the installation, I selected "C++ Compiler", "MSYS Basic System" and "MinGW Developer ToolKit".
3. Update your PATH: Add the C:\MinGW\bin directory to the system PATH. You may need to log-off and log-in again to reflect the added path.
4. Go to C:\Python25\Lib\distutils, create a file distutils.cfg and add the following lines:
[build]
compiler=mingw32
5. If you compile the package at this stage with "Python setup.py install", you may get the following error:
File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 84, in __init__
get_versions()
File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 424, in get_versions
ld_version = StrictVersion(result.group(1))
File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\version.py", line 40, in __init__
self.parse(vstring)
File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\version.py", line 107, in parse
raise ValueError, "invalid version number '%s'" % vstring
ValueError: invalid version number '2.20.51.20100613'
6. It says that your compiler version is invalid. Go to C:\Python25\Lib\distutils and backup a copy of cygwinccompiler.py. Open cygwinccompiler.py in text editor (e.g. notepad or IDLE). In def get_versions(): section you will find the following line:
result = re.search('(\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)',out_string)
Replace all "result = re.search('(\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)',out_string)" with the following code:
result = re.search('(\d+(\.\d+)?(\.\d+)?)',out_string)
It will tell Python to check the first digit only.
7. Try to compile again and it should work now.
8. Since I am working with Python 2.5.2, I am not sure 2.6 or 2.7 have that kind of issue or not.
Please tell me if it works for you are not.
Reference:
http://bugs.python.org/issue2234
