Installation failing under Windows 64 bit

[Former user]

If you easy_install SQLAlchemy 0.7.0 for Python 2.6 on Windows 7 64bit without Visual Studio installed (which is usually the case), you get a ValueError instead of the C extension installation being silently skipped.

The same problem seems to exist on other 64bit platforms and Python versions, see Python issue 7511.

A workaround is provided by the attached patch. I can also provide binaries for Windows for uploading on PyPI if you like.

[Former user]

Workaround for Win64 installation issue

[Mike Bayer]

thanks for the patch, dc75e0c6835ea53d6a84cfbf819240da2286486d

[Mike Bayer]

Removing milestone: 0.7.1 (automated comment)