On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Sturla Molden <stu...@molden.no> wrote: > >> Python extensions must be built using the same compiler as was used to >> build the Python binary. Python 2.5.4 was built using MSVC2003 and so >> extensions for it must be built using the same compiler. The exception >> to this rule is that extensions built using mingw32 (and msys) will >> work with most, if not all, windows Python binaries. > > > This is NOT correct.
Although it is technically true, that's relatively irrelevant for practical matters: it is not currently possible to build numpy with VS 2008 and 7.1 CRT, and you have to build numpy with the same compiler as the one used by python if you use MS compilers. David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
