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

Dino Viehland dinov at microsoft.com
Sat Jan 14 00:22:20 CET 2012

Dino wrote:

Martin wrote: > 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.

... I'm going to ping some people on the windows team and see if the app container bit is or will be necessary for DLLs.

I heard back from the Windows team and they are going to require the app container bit to be set on all PE files (although they don't currently enforce it).
I was able to compile a simple .c file and pass /link /appcontainer and that worked, so I'm going to try and figure out if there's some way to get the .vcxproj to build a working command line that includes that.

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