[Python-Dev] Windows compiler for Python 2.6+ (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Feb 28 23:31:13 CET 2007


Chris AtLee schrieb:

I just got bitten by the runtime library incompatibility problem on windows when I tried to load a C extension compiled with MSVC 2005 (64-bit) into Python 2.5.

I realize that Python2.5 will continue to use MSVC 2003 for compatibility reasons, but I was curious if any thought had been given to the future of the 2.x series.

You are mistaken. The 64-bit versions (AMD64 and Itanium) are not compiled using MSVC 2003 - this product does not even include compilers for this platform. Instead, they are compiled with the SDK compilers.

Regards, Martin



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