[Python-Dev] Re: Timing for Py2.4 (original) (raw)

Paul Moore pf_moore at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Mar 31 03:00:06 EST 2004

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

Of course it won't. You need VC7.1, which comes as part of Visual Studio .NET 2003.

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I doubt it could work, in the general case. VC7 uses msvcr7.dll, whereas VC7.1 uses msvcr71.dll. Mixing different versions of the C runtime is not supported by Microsoft.

Ah. I'd missed the ".1". So there is no free version of the compiler used to build the official Python Windows distribution. In that case, I agree - there's no way this could work (at least, other than by unsupported mixing of runtimes, which may work by accident :-)).

Thanks for pointing this out, Paul.

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