Added a hack for compiling Python ext. on 64-bit Windows

appveyor.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 version: "{build}"
 clone_depth: 10
 environment:
+    # SDK v7.0 MSVC Express 2008's SetEnv.cmd script will fail if the
+    # /E:ON and /V:ON options are not enabled in the batch script intepreter
+    # See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13751649/163740
+    CMD_IN_ENV: "cmd /E:ON /V:ON /C .\\continuous_integration\\appveyor\\run_with_env.cmd"
+
   matrix:
     - PYTHON: "C:\\Python27"
       PYTHON_VERSION: "2.7.8"
@@ -27,12 +32,21 @@ environment:
       PYTHON_ARCH: "64"
 
 install:
-  - "%PYTHON%/Scripts/pip.exe install pytest hypothesis"
+  - "%PYTHON%/Scripts/pip.exe install --timeout=60 -r continuous_integration/appveyor/requirements.txt"
 
 build: false
 
 test_script:
   - "%PYTHON%/python.exe setup.py test"
 
+after_test:
+  # If tests are successful, create a whl package for the project.
+  - "%PYTHON%/python.exe setup.py bdist_wheel bdist_wininst"
+  - ps: "ls dist"
+
+artifacts:
+  # Archive the generated wheel package in the ci.appveyor.com build report.
+  - path: dist\*
+
 matrix:
   fast_finish: true

continuous_integration/appveyor/requirements.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+hypothesis
+pytest
+wheel
+wheelhouse_uploader

continuous_integration/appveyor/run_with_env.cmd

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+:: To build extensions for 64 bit Python 3, we need to configure environment
+:: variables to use the MSVC 2010 C++ compilers from GRMSDKX_EN_DVD.iso of:
+:: MS Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 (SDK v7.1)
+::
+:: To build extensions for 64 bit Python 2, we need to configure environment
+:: variables to use the MSVC 2008 C++ compilers from GRMSDKX_EN_DVD.iso of:
+:: MS Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 (SDK v7.0)
+::
+:: 32 bit builds do not require specific environment configurations.
+::
+:: Note: this script needs to be run with the /E:ON and /V:ON flags for the
+:: cmd interpreter, at least for (SDK v7.0)
+::
+:: More details at:
+:: https://github.com/cython/cython/wiki/64BitCythonExtensionsOnWindows
+:: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13751649/163740
+::
+:: Author: Olivier Grisel
+:: License: BSD 3 clause
+@ECHO OFF
+
+SET COMMAND_TO_RUN=%*
+SET WIN_SDK_ROOT=C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows
+
+SET MAJOR_PYTHON_VERSION="%PYTHON_VERSION:~0,1%"
+IF %MAJOR_PYTHON_VERSION% == "2" (
+    SET WINDOWS_SDK_VERSION="v7.0"
+) ELSE IF %MAJOR_PYTHON_VERSION% == "3" (
+    SET WINDOWS_SDK_VERSION="v7.1"
+) ELSE (
+    ECHO Unsupported Python version: "%MAJOR_PYTHON_VERSION%"
+    EXIT 1
+)
+
+IF "%PYTHON_ARCH%"=="64" (
+    ECHO Configuring Windows SDK %WINDOWS_SDK_VERSION% for Python %MAJOR_PYTHON_VERSION% on a 64 bit architecture
+    SET DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1
+    SET MSSdk=1
+    "%WIN_SDK_ROOT%\%WINDOWS_SDK_VERSION%\Setup\WindowsSdkVer.exe" -q -version:%WINDOWS_SDK_VERSION%
+    "%WIN_SDK_ROOT%\%WINDOWS_SDK_VERSION%\Bin\SetEnv.cmd" /x64 /release
+    ECHO Executing: %COMMAND_TO_RUN%
+    call %COMMAND_TO_RUN% || EXIT 1
+) ELSE (
+    ECHO Using default MSVC build environment for 32 bit architecture
+    ECHO Executing: %COMMAND_TO_RUN%
+    call %COMMAND_TO_RUN% || EXIT 1
+)