build with visual studio.

[tempbottle]

build with "python setup.py build install", and run the tests with "nosetests -v -w tests"

[saghul]

Hi,

Thanks for your effort! Sorry to be pedantic, but here are some preliminary comments:

• The patch does not apply on current master, you'll need to rebase it

• For the moment pyuv is built without gyp. I see you added a couple of patches to the gyp files, but gyp_uv is not called.

• Don't bump the libuv revision number as part of a big patch like this one

• Variable names are cheap, use self.compiler_type instead of self.cc

• Use that exec_process function instead of os.system

• Remove this log line tempbottle@d4305dc#L3R151

• Can't his be simplified? tempbottle@d4305dc#L4R59
  I was thinking something like this:

  #if defined(_MSC_VER)
  #define func FUNCTION

• Why this change? tempbottle@d4305dc#L5R94

Again, sorry to be so picky, but the one which will maintain this code later will be me :-)

[saghul]

I spent some time trying out this today and I can't explain with bare words how much I hate the Windows ecosystem.

We need VS 2008 support because the Python binaries distributes at python.org are built with it. Unfortunately, libuv is not adapted to work with VS2008. I made some changes and it did compile, but when the Python module is built a ton of errors happen at link stage.

I'm sticking with MinGW for now...

[saghul]

Closing, finally fixed this in master.