Compiling ODE on windows without Visual Studio (for PyODE)

Question

I'm new to compiling programs written by someone else, so I hope I'm not missing anything obvious.

What I am really trying to do is install PyODE, and I think I managed that just fine, but when running the PyODE examples I get an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python26\pyode-examples\tutorial3.py", line 12, in <module>
    import ode
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

which assume means that it can't find ODE installed. I thought PyODE came bundled with ODE but I guess not.. so now I'm trying to compile ODE according to these instructions: http://opende.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Manual_%28Install_and_Use%29

but they all seem to revolve around creating configuration files for visual studio which I don't have.

Could someone please clue me in on the proper procedure here? Thanks! :) -Leav

Answer 1

My Problem was completley unrelated to whether or not you could compile ODE without visual studio.

Simply copied ODE.dll which was in the python directory into the example's directory.

Thanks Thomas! :)