Andi Vajda wrote: > Do you really ? If so why ? > If there is a library mismatch, can I not recompile Python 2.5 > with VC++ 2008 ?
Distutils doesn't allow to compile extensions with another version of MSVC than the version Python has been compiled with. The official build of Python 2.5 is compiled with VS 2003. The source code contains an experimental and unsupported build directory for VS 2005. In theory you could recompile Python with VS 2005 or even 2008 but you'd have to compile all extension yourself, too. Library mismatches are prohibited by distutils because they may lead to ugly and hard to debug crashes. For example you can't use file and memory functions like close() and free() on memory and file pointers from another MSVCRT. Christian
