MSVC 6.0 Unsupported?

[Bryan]

"Irmen de Jong" <irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVETHIS-xs4all.nl> wrote in message news:3f3284d8$0$49098$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl...
> Syver Enstad wrote:
> > But Gerhard, what can I do? Every python extension that I will try to
> > compile will fail if it depends on a working staticforward. The most
> > rational thing to me is to patch object.h instead of patching every
> > .cpp/.c file that needs this define.
>
> Can't you just add a single compiler option (for cl.exe) to your project?
>
> /Dstaticforward=extern
>
> wouldn't that work?
>
> --Irmen
>
>
>

that's not a bad idea if we can add that to a distutils setup.py and then "if" the compiler...   but i still think it's much simpler
for those of us using the msvc compiler to just modify object.h once.   i'm aware you don't like this option.

bryan