[Python-Dev] Supporting Visual Studio 2010

exarkun at twistedmatrix.com exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
Tue Apr 5 14:52:42 CEST 2011


On 09:58 am, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:
>>Won't that still be an issue despite the stable ABI? Extensions on
>>Windows should be linked to the same version of MSVCRT used to compile
>>Python
>
>Not if they use the stable ABI. There still might be issues if you
>mix CRTs, but none related to the Python ABI - in particular, none
>of those crashing conditions can arise from the stable ABI.

Does this mean new versions of distutils let you build_ext with any C 
compiler, instead of enforcing the same compiler as it has done 
previously?  That would be great.

Jean-Paul


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