On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:34 PM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In other words, the problem mainly arises when you need to integrate >> libraries which you can not recompile with the compiler used by >> python, because the code is not visual-studio compatible, or because >> the library is only available in binary form. > > In my case, I was building on an old dev system which only has VC6, > but needed to link against Python 2.4 (which was compiled with MSVC > 2005). The build process didn't use distutils, so that didn't affect > anything.
ok, I was confused by "I just recompiled". > > It works, you just have to know what APIs you have to avoid. The critical point is that you cannot always do that. Retaking my example of mkstemp: I have a C library which has a fdopen-like function (built with one C runtime, not the same as python), there is no way that I know of to use this API with a file descriptor obtained from tempfile.mkstemp function. The only solution is to build my own C extension with C mkstemp, built with the same runtime as my library, and make that available to python. cheers, David _______________________________________________ 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
