python-appveyor-demo | Demo project for building Python wheels with appveyor.com

The appveyor.yml file in this repo configures a Windows build environment for both for 32 bit and 64 bit Python compiled extensions. This demo project is configured to trigger build jobs at:. The content of the dist/ folder (typically hosting the generated .whl packages) is archived in the build report (see previous link). Note: it is possible to activate the "Rolling builds" option to automatically cancel build on intermediate push events to avoid clogging the build queue with useless jobs. However it can be problematic as it can cancel builds triggered by direct push to master outside of any PR. Instead the appveyor.yml file of this repo uses a specific powershell snippet to quickly fail if a newer build is queued for the same PR.
the appveyor/install.ps1 powershell script downloads and installs Python and and pip to grab all the development dependencies of the project as registered in the dev-requirements.txt file.
the appveyor/run_in_env.cmd batch script configures environment variables to activate the MSVC++ compiler from the Windows SDK matching the Python version and architecture.