Re: [Numpy-discussion] 64-bit windows numpy / scipy wheels for testing

Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@gmail.com> wrote:

2) Static linking - Carl's toolchain does full static linking including C runtimes

The C runtime cannot be statically linked. It would mean that we get multiple copies of errno and multiple malloc heaps in the process – one of each static CRT. We must use the same C runtime DLL as Python. But loading it is not a problem because Python has done that before NumPy is imported. Sturla