cant install from source on MSWindows

[Darren Dale]

I'm getting the old "need visual studio 6" error message. I have seen
advice to download the free compiler, I tried that and it didnt work. I
have an academic copy of VS.net, tried installing that, and still no
dice. Can somebody tell me how they have been able to get this working?
I would like to start contributing to my favorite plotting package, but
this is really tripping me up.

Thanks,
Darren

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

I'm getting the old "need visual studio 6" error message. I have seen
advice to download the free compiler, I tried that and it didnt work. I
have an academic copy of VS.net, tried installing that, and still no
dice. Can somebody tell me how they have been able to get this working?
I would like to start contributing to my favorite plotting package, but
this is really tripping me up.

Reportedly, you also can build extensions with Cygwin.

Regards,
Martin