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

Dino Viehland dinov at microsoft.com
Wed Jan 11 02:59:08 CET 2012

Martin wrote:

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)?

Just the VS 11 CRT is allowed.

> 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 WINAPIFAMILY=2, or any other compiler setting. I'd really love to use WINAPIFAMILY=2, as compiler errors are much easier to fix than verifier errors.

Let me see if I can try this. Hopefully I still have my VM w/ this all setup and I can see if I can get it building this way. I can always ping some people on the C++ team and ask them for help if I run into issues. I'll give it a shot tomorrow and get back to you.

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