How to tell setup.py to use Visual Studio

Question

I'm building a Python extension module on Windows. The extension module is written in C++. When I call setup.py bdist then setup.py uses MinGW to compile the C++ code. Is there any way I can tell setup.py to use MSVS 2008 instead?

(Why do I want to do this? This issue is one reason.)

Answer 1

setup.py build --compiler=msvc
setup.py bdist_egg