[PROTON-1970] Need to compile proton-core with VS2008 (msvc9) to make python2.7 extension

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: proton-c-0.27.0
• Component/s: proton-c
• Assignee: Andrew Stitcher
• Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
• Created: 22/Nov/18 01:25
• Updated: 02/Mar/19 23:35
• Resolved: 22/Nov/18 01:48

Description

distutils will only compile a c extension module with msvc9 if it for use with python 2.7 on windows.

So for a working python proton on windows on python 2.7 we nned to compile with vs 2008.