[Image-SIG] Windows CRT issues with Python 2.6

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ok, I can apply Koen's patch locally and rebuild, if that makes sense.

What's the quickest way to look for embedded manifests in the PYD:s?
dumpbin doesn't seem to say anything about that, so I assume I have to
use some other tool.

</F>

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Farshid Lashkari <flashk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just tried the new installer
> (http://effbot.org/media/downloads/PIL-1.1.6.win32-py2.6.exe), but the pyd
> files still contain embedded manifests. The installer says it was built Oct
> 1, 2009 with Python 2.6.2, so that should be the latest version.
> I took a closer look at the changes made from that bug report. The change
> was only made to the PCbuild/pyd.vsprops file, which I don't believe will
> affect 3rd party extensions. I see that Koen submitted a patch
> for msvc9compiler.py that will strip the runtime from the manifest, but that
> doesn't appear to have been committed. So I'm not really sure how 3rd party
> extension developers can build pyd files without embedded manifests.
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I've replaced the 1.1.6 binary at effbot.org/downloads with one built
>> under 2.6.2.  The installer is 130k larger thanks to a 3x larger
>> wininst executable (!?), but the binary extensions are slightly
>> smaller than before, so I'll assume it's the manifests that have
>> disappeared.
>>
>> </F>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Ah, sneaky.  I'm pretty sure the current binary distribution was built
>> > when 2.6 was new, and I didn't really expect them to tweak
>> > build-related issues in an incremental release :)
>> >
>> > I'll push out a new build asap; will ping the list when it's available.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > </F>
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Koen van de Sande
>> > <koenvandesande at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> The fix was applied to the main Python distribution (2.6.2 has it for
>> >> sure,
>> >> 2.6.0/2.6.1 does not). Any extension built with 2.6.2 or higher should
>> >> be
>> >> fine, as it will not get an embedded manifest.
>> >> So just rebuild with Python Windows version 2.6.2. I see in the PIL
>> >> source
>> >> tree that it uses a setup.py build_ext call, so no changes to PIL
>> >> should be
>> >> needed.
>> >>
>> >> Koen
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