In comp.lang.python, "Tim Peters" <
[email protected]> (Tim Peters)
wrote in <
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|[Ravi]
|> Has anyone tried building Python with VC++.NET? Does it work or fail
|> horribly like I think it will.
|
|Yes, several people have built it that way, and it works fine. You can get
|into obscure kinds of trouble if you try to mix code compiled with VC6 and
|VC7, though, because the C runtime systems are distinct (so, e.g.,
|malloc()ing memory in one runtime and free()ing it in another, or passing
|FILE* thingies across them, can lead to subtle-- or instantly
|catastrophic --problems).
|
|Note that all current Windows installers from PythonLabs install code
|compiled with VC6, and the same will be true for 2.3 final (due out next
|week). It also seems that 3rd-party extension modules compiled with VC7 are
|still hard to come by.
|
|> My boss seems to think it is good to have programs that are in managed
|> code because it is more 'portable'. Not that there's another complete
|> .NET runtime besides Microsoft's but he does not understand that.
|
|If you're younger than him, you can reasonably hope to outlive him <wink>.
|
|alas-it's-not-a-strategy-that-works-your-whole-career-ly y'rs - tim
|
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