[Python-Dev] Win64 AMD64 (aka x64) binaries available64

[Thomas Heller]

Thomas Heller wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Thomas Heller wrote:
>>> On XP (32-bit), I can compile python25.dll and python.exe for AMD64 now,
>>> after adding bufferoverflowU.lib to the linker options.
>> On what project? There should be /GS- options on all projects that need
>> it, which, in turn, should result in bufferoverflowU.lib not being needed.
>>
>> Or I forgot to check that change in... Will do Monday.
> 
> Ok, /GS- helps.  No need to hurry - I would commit that myself but I only
> have readonly sandboxes on these installations, no putty, and so on.
> 
>>> Error : Could not create new temporary options response file
>> I've never seen these. I will have to study the source again, and
>> find out how that could happen.
>>
>> Do you have spaces in the directory leading to the working copy?
> 
> No.
> 
> But your guess is somewhat correct:  If I move the sandbox to a path *with* spaces
> in it, this problem goes away ;-).  On the 64-bit box.

I forgot to mention that there are a lot of warnings about conversion betweem Py_ssize_t
to int - if you want me to fix the obvious ones I'll offer to correct some of them from time
to time and commit the changes.  I wonder why gcc doesn't warn about those.

Thomas