[Python-Dev] Python as a Metro-style App (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Jan 11 01:32:12 CET 2012

I haven't been following this thread so maybe this was already discussed, but on the whole "new OS target" thing - if people want to write immersive apps in Python then there will need to be a new build of Python. One thing that might make that easier is the fact that the C runtime is still available to metro apps, even if the C runtime calls a banned API.

Does that hold for all versions of the C runtime (i.e. is msvcr80.dll also exempt from the ban, or just the version that comes with VS 11)?

So to the extent that Python is just a C program the "port" should be pretty easy and mostly involve disabling functionality that isn't available at all to metro apps.

See the start of the thread: I tried to create a "WinRT Component DLL", and that failed, as VS would refuse to compile any C file in such a project. Not sure whether this is triggered by defining WINAPI_FAMILY=2, or any other compiler setting.

I'd really love to use WINAPI_FAMILY=2, as compiler errors are much easier to fix than verifier errors.

Regards, Martin

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