[Python-Dev] Build extensions for windows python 2.4 what are the compiler rules? (original) (raw)

Barry Scott barry at barrys-emacs.org
Thu Dec 23 23:20:33 CET 2004


I see that, as expected, windows python 2.4 was built with MSVC 7.1 rather then msvc 6.0.

It seems that I can build extensions with msvc 6.0 that work with the python 2.4 windows binary kit.

Is this safe?

I recall warning a while ago about mixing msvc 6.0 and msvc 7.1 runtime DLL's. Is this an issue with python 2.4?

I'm also surprised that the python 2.4 source kit only mentions MSVC 6.0 and not the compiler that you actually built python 2.4 with.

Barry



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