[Python-Dev] Re: No-cost optimizing VC 7.1 (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sun Apr 18 22:44:11 EDT 2004

At 12:09 PM 4/19/04 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:

Paul Moore <pfmoore at yahoo.co.uk>:

> Sadly, a test seems to show that the /MD option links with msvcrt.dll, > and not with msvcr71.dll. So this still isn't of immediate use in > building Python extensions which will run against a standard Python > binary distribution. Can I just ask at this point whether it's possible to use MinGW to compile extensions for the Python version under discussion here?

Yes. See:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/041650.html

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