[Python-Dev] Win64 AMD64 (aka x64) binaries available64 (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Thu Mar 30 20:27:45 CEST 2006

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Thomas Heller wrote:

In sysgetwindowsversion:

return PyBuildValue("HHHHs", ver.dwMajorVersion, ver.dwMinorVersion, ver.dwBuildNumber, ver.dwPlatformId, ver.szCSDVersion); The crash disappears if I change the first parameter in the PyBuildValue call to "LLLLs". No idea why. With this change, I can start the exe without a crash, but sys.versioninfo starts with (IIRC) (2, 0, 5,...). Very strange. What is your compiler version (first line of cl /?)? 'H' isn't exactly right, since these are DWORDs, so they are unsigned longs, not unsigned ints (so 'k' should be right), however, the actually bug apparently is elsewhere - something like memory corruption. Can you find out what the value of szCSDVersion is (e.g. by putting a printf right before that)?

I would prefer to examine this further when I'm able to compile Python on the AMD64 machine. Currently I'm not, because the VSExtCompiler Plugin cannot determine the SDK path from the registry. This is vsextcomp 0.6.

I have installed the 2003 Server SP1 SDK. I tried installing the Feb 2003 SDK (since that did work on a 32-bit machine), but this won't install on XP-64.

Thomas

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