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4. Building C and C++ Extensions on Windows
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This chapter briefly explains how to create a Windows extension module
for Python using Microsoft Visual C++, and follows with more
detailed background information on how it works. The explanatory
material is useful for both the Windows programmer learning to build
Python extensions and the <span class="Unix">Unix</span> programmer interested in producing
software which can be successfully built on both <span class="Unix">Unix</span> and Windows.
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Module authors are encouraged to use the distutils approach for
building extension modules, instead of the one described in this
section. You will still need the C compiler that was used to build
Python; typically Microsoft Visual C++.
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example, if you are using Python 2.2.1, "<tt class="samp">XY</tt>" will actually be
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