[Python-Dev] Switch to MS VC++ 2005 ?! (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Mon Feb 27 21:03:06 CET 2006

Alex Martelli wrote:

On 2/27/06, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

Microsoft has recently released their express version of the Visual C++. Given that this version is free for everyone, wouldn't it make sense to ship Python 2.5 compiled with this version ?!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx I suppose this would make compiling extensions easier for people who don't have a standard VC++ .NET installed. It would sure be nice for people like me with "occasional dabbler in Windows" status, so, selfishly, I'd be all in favor. However...: What I hear from the rumor mill (not perhaps a reliable source) is a bit discouraging about the stability of VS2005 (e.g. internal rebellion at MS in which groups which need to ship a lot of code pushed back against any attempt to make them use VS2005, and managed to win the internal fight and stick with VS2003), but I don't know if any such worry applies to something as simple as the mere compilation of C code...

Should I read this as: VC8 is unstable ?

Perhaps that's the reason they decided to give it away for free for the first year.

Note: This is just a thought - I haven't looked into the consequences of building with VC8 yet, e.g. from the list of pre-requisites, it's possible that .NET 2.0 would become a requirement. You mean, to RUN vc8-compiled Python?! That would be perhaps the first C compiler ever unable to produce "native", stand-alone code, wouldn't it?

Well, the code that VC7 generates relies on MSVCR71.DLL which appears to be part of .NET 1.1. It's hard to tell since I don't have a system around without .NET on it.

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