I just came up with an idea how to resolve the VC versioning problems for good: Python should link with mscvrt.dll (which is part of the operating system), not with the CRT that the compiler provides.
To do that, we would need to compile and link with the SDK header files and import libraries, not with the ones that visual studio provides. For that to work, everyone building Python or Python extensions (*) would have to install the Platform SDK (which is available for free, but contains quite a number of bits). Would that be acceptable? Disclaimer: I haven't tried yet whether this would actually work. Regards, Martin (*) For Python extensions, it should be possible to use mingw instead, and configure it for linking against msvcrt. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
