[Python-Dev] The other Py2.4 issue (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Fri Dec 10 18:19:21 CET 2004

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:06:01PM +0000, Paul Moore wrote:

For most C extensions, the best free option is mingw.

Sorry, I was not aware that mingw supports the new VC7.1-type of runtime that is needed for the extension module to load with the official Python 2.4 distribution.

Note that compiling with Microsoft's free compiler (after the huge downloads and the manual patching) worked just fine, so I think it is worth a note somewhere.

Another note: can you report on whether building libpython24.a can be skipped for mingw? I'm thinking about the specific situation where we want on-site compilation of extension modules with a minimal number of things to install first. E.g. if we need to compile libpython24.a it means we need to fetch the Python sources themselves first. (A use case is for prorgams that dynamically produce and compile extension modules, as "weave" or the PyPy test suite do.)

A bientot,

Armin.

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