Added support for compiling with MSVC

Author: willyd

PythonAPI/pycocotools/_mask.pyx

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# distutils: language = c
+# distutils: language = c++
 # distutils: sources = ../common/maskApi.c
 
 #**************************************************************************

PythonAPI/setup.py

@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
+import sys
 from setuptools import setup, Extension
 import numpy as np
-
 # To compile and install locally run "python setup.py build_ext --inplace"
 # To install library to Python site-packages run "python setup.py build_ext install"
+extra_compile_args = ['-Wno-cpp', '-Wno-unused-function', '-std=c99']
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+    extra_compile_args = []
 
 ext_modules = [
     Extension(
         'pycocotools._mask',
         sources=['../common/maskApi.c', 'pycocotools/_mask.pyx'],
         include_dirs = [np.get_include(), '../common'],
-        extra_compile_args=['-Wno-cpp', '-Wno-unused-function', '-std=c99'],
+        extra_compile_args=extra_compile_args,,
     )
 ]
 

common/maskApi.h

@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 * Licensed under the Simplified BSD License [see coco/license.txt]
 **************************************************************************/
 #pragma once
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) &&  _MSC_VER < 1800
+//typedef unsigned char bool;
+#else
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#endif
 
 typedef unsigned int uint;
 typedef unsigned long siz;