Robert Kern wrote: > This is what Martin said: > > """ > It used to be possible to link with it. See > > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/abx4dbyh(VS.80).aspx > > This is now a "known DLL", and meant for use by system-level components > only. > """ > > Note the words "used to" and "now". Mingw is a somewhat old project and > was initially developed at a time when MSVCRT.dll *was* intended to be > used by applications. It simply hasn't received enough attention > recently to move to a different runtime. If you would like to volunteer > your time to do the necessary work to allow it to link to modern > runtimes, please do so. You will receive the undying thanks of many, > many Pythoneers.
thanks, but I'm more in favor of the reverse direction :-) As I have a lot to do with frozen distributables, package sizes are still a predominant concern for me. App-startup speed, MEM consumption etc. also - still. Having non-standard C-RTLs and maybe non-standard versions of the MFC dll's, doubled Python-DLL sizes etc. one has an extra burden of >3MB since Python2.4. This means for me: Python2.3 - or create very proprietary compilations. robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list