Peter Vandersteegen <Peter.Vandersteegen@intec.Ugent.be> writes: [...]
Now my question is: is it absolutely necessary to compile everything with the same msvc as python is compiled with? If not, is the line in msvccompiler.py absolutely necessary? Could this be replaced with a warning, instead of raising an exception? Simply aborting completely the compilation proces seems kind of drastic.
Strictly speaking, it is necessary to link the extension module to the same MS runtime libraries as the python dll. For MSVC 6, this is MSVCRT.DLL, for MSVC7.1, it is MSVCR71.DLL. If you don't have MSVC6, you can try to compile your extensions with Mingw32, which also links with MSVCRT.DLL. Or you compile Python yourself with the C compiler you have, and do the same for the extensions.
greetz and thx for reading so far
Peter
ps. I presume this problem still is present in python 2.4, because msvccompiler.py still contains the conflicting lines in the cvs-version...
It's not a Python problem ;-) Thomas