[Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 06 May 2003 14:45:50 -0400


> > I can see advantages and disadvantages of moving to VC 7; I'm sure the
> > VC 7 compiler is more standard-compliant and generates faster code,
> > but a disadvantage is that you can't apparently link binaries built
> > with VC 6 to a program built with VC 7, meaning that 3rd party
> > extensions will have to be recompiled with VC 7 as well.
> 
> Can distutils use (or be made to use) the free command line VC 7 tools?

That would be a project, but his implication was that the compilers
are usable as command line tools, so I'm confident it can be done.

> Also, does this affect whether extensions can be compiled by Mingw?
> It would be nice if people could continue building extensions on
> Windows using free tools.

I know noting about Mingw.  Anyone who does please speak up if this
would affect them or not.

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