[Python-Dev] Re: No-cost optimizing VC 7.1

[Thomas Heller]

Paul Moore <pf_moore at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> "Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:
>
>> Thanks to David Abrahams for passing on this info:  a free optimizing
>> cmdline VC 7.1 has been released by MS:
>>
>>     http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
>>
>> The 32MB download appears to contain much of the meat of Visual Studio .NET
>> 2003 Professional, including the compiler, linker, static-link libraries for
>> the C, C++ & STL runtimes, and the .NET Common Language Runtime.
>
> Sadly, a test seems to show that the /MD option links with msvcrt.dll,
> and not with msvcr71.dll.

Although it seems *not even* msvcrt.lib is included. The lib directory
of my vctoolkit installation only contains:

  10.08.2002  05:00           191.866 kernel32.lib
  21.02.2003  02:58         2.707.332 libc.lib
  18.03.2003  19:58         3.023.122 libcd.lib
  18.03.2003  19:58            94.208 libcd.pdb
  21.02.2003  03:01         2.937.240 libcmt.lib
  21.02.2003  02:58         3.604.302 libcp.lib
  18.03.2003  19:58         4.433.724 libcpd.lib
  18.03.2003  19:58           225.280 libcpd.pdb
  21.02.2003  03:02         3.654.594 libcpmt.lib
  20.02.2003  19:38            18.618 mscoree.lib
  21.02.2003  02:53            69.512 oldnames.lib

Thomas