"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Brennus wrote: >> I have solved my problem, or at least part of it by downgrading >> to Visual Studio 2003. For whatever reason, the same steps applied >> to Visual Studio 2005 result in massive problems. >> >> Even the python.exe compiled by VS 2005 throws A/Vs on startup. >> >> Does Python have to use Visual Studio? > >Is this the debug build, by any chance? Microsoft broke support >for ISO C in VS2005. The Python trunk has a work-around for that >breakage.
Good to hear, for my sanity at least. I was actually thinking Microsoft was losing or breaking C on purpose after using VS2005, and even VS2003 to some degree. I think it's some sort of tactic. That's another reason I don't want to continue using VS for Python. >> I have, of course, seen >> the MinGW Python patches and tutorials, but I am told I should >> not use anything but what Python was compiled with. > >More likely, you managed to mix msvcrt versions somehow. You >need to inspect your resulting DLL in depends.exe; please report >what it depends on. I can't manage to compile anything with VS when Code Generation is not set to the same type across projects. I guess I will try the VS 2005 route again with this and the VS2005 patches in mind. I am setting Code Generation the same across projects so I figured that meant I was using the same C runtimes. >Also notice that you cannot use extension DLLs in your embedded >Python: all extension DLLs depend on python2x.dll, so importing >one of them leads to multiple copies of the Python code in your >interpreter. > >> Are there plans to move away from VS? > >Well, VS is the the "platform compiler", so no. Of course, if >you wanted that to happen, you could write a PEP, and explain >what alternative compiler (plus alternative build procedure) >should be used. I imagine MinGW's build process would be much easier. I *think* I have to keep two Python trees just to *easily* compile static and dynamic import lib files from Python VS. Otherwise, it is quite easy to overwrite a 3 meg static pythoncore.lib with the 200k dynamic/import version. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list