Re: [Distutils] why not link modules against msvcrt.dll istead of versioned msvcr*.dll? (mingw32)

2012-11-14 Thread Éric Araujo
Hello, Thanks for reporting the bug. I hope one of the few core devs with Windows knowledge will be able to help me. > I agree that reading bug comments by core devs is really frustrating, > especially since distutils is frozen (which means for them that bugs > don't get fixed) No, it means th

Re: [Distutils] why not link modules against msvcrt.dll istead of versioned msvcr*.dll? (mingw32)

2012-11-14 Thread Václav Šmilauer
I didn't bother to report that particular issue since http://bugs.python.org/issue4709 (which has been reported nearly 4 years ago) isn't being fixed and I can't provide a testcase that fails... Other bugs that I hit when using mingw-w64: http://bugs.python.org/issue11566 http://bugs.python.org/

Re: [Distutils] why not link modules against msvcrt.dll istead of versioned msvcr*.dll? (mingw32)

2012-11-12 Thread Ralf Schmitt
Chris Jerdonek writes: >> My guess would be that it's needed for some older gcc version. It looks >> like none of the python developers care enough to fix issues with >> mingw-w64. > > Has someone already tried filing an issue about this on the tracker > (bugs.python.org)? Otherwise, I wouldn't

Re: [Distutils] why not link modules against msvcrt.dll istead of versioned msvcr*.dll? (mingw32)

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Jerdonek
On Nov 12, 2012, at 5:36 AM, Ralf Schmitt wrote: > Václav Šmilauer writes: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> I recently (inconclusively) discussed on the mingw-w64 mailing list >> why are compiled modules linked to msvcrt90 (depending on python >> build) rather than to msvcrt. A compiled module was crash

Re: [Distutils] why not link modules against msvcrt.dll istead of versioned msvcr*.dll? (mingw32)

2012-11-12 Thread Ralf Schmitt
Václav Šmilauer writes: > Hi everybody, > > I recently (inconclusively) discussed on the mingw-w64 mailing list > why are compiled modules linked to msvcrt90 (depending on python > build) rather than to msvcrt. A compiled module was crashing (the DLL > would not load with "invalid access to memor

[Distutils] why not link modules against msvcrt.dll istead of versioned msvcr*.dll? (mingw32)

2012-11-12 Thread Václav Šmilauer
Hi everybody, I recently (inconclusively) discussed on the mingw-w64 mailing list why are compiled modules linked to msvcrt90 (depending on python build) rather than to msvcrt. A compiled module was crashing (the DLL would not load with "invalid access to memory and such") with msvcr90, while