Python distutils, how to get a compiler that is going to be used?
This is an expanded version of Luper Rouch’s answer that worked for me to get an openmp extension to compile using both mingw and msvc on windows. After subclassing build_ext you need to pass it to setup.py in the cmdclass arg. By subclassing build_extensions instead of finalize_options you’ll have the actual compiler object to look … Read more