I am working on SWIG which converts the functions written in C and C++ into their python equivalent which would be later used in Chimera. At one point while building binaries, I received an error message saying extensions must be built with a compiler than can generate compatible binaries. Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this system.

So I believe installing Visual Studio 2003 must help building binaries. But since I will be actually working on Chimera Python, I wanted to know which compiler can generate compatible binaries in Chimera Python? Shall I go ahead with Visual Studio 2003? or any other version?

Thank you in advance.

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