[wxPython-users] BitmapFromBuffer speed and proposal for wx.Bitmap.CopyFromBuffer

[Josiah Carlson]

"Rob McMullen" <rob.mcmullen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, there is a no-charge version of the MS compiler available, plus
> > you can compile python extensions with MinGW, though I don't think
> > anyone has set up wxPython to be compiled that way.
> 
> I've used MinGW to build some extensions at work, and thought about
> trying to get it to work for wxPython, but never took up the
> challenge.
> 
> Back in the archives of python-users, there was some discussion about
> the use of VC 2005 with Python, but since py is built with VC 2003,
> there are library incompatibilities.  Bummer.
> 
> Rumor has it that py 2.6 will use VC 2005, but until then it appears
> that there's no free (beer or speech) option for an end-to-end freely
> compilable python system that works with existing binary extensions.

If you look around, you can find the 2003 SDK on the internet. 
Alternatively, you can recompile Python using VC 2005.  There are some
patches that may or may not have made it into the 2.5-maint branch for
making VC 2005 compilations easier, but if you search the python-dev
archives, there are at least links to patches and/or information.

 - Josiah