compiling modules with VS 2008 for python 2.4 prepared with Visual Studio 2003

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> complier is just a compiler. perhaps final linking could be somehow
> tweaked to include msvcrt71 instad of 80.

Not easily. VS 2005 is not just a complier, it is also a rinkel,
and ships with improt librareis. The import library for msvcrt.lib
it ships with automatically links with msvcr8.dll.

You either would have to create a import library for mscvr71.dll
by hand, or you have to copy one from VS 2003 (breaking its license).

Regards,
Martin

P.S. Why does the subject say "VS 2008", anyway? That product has
not been released yet, and Microsoft is still hoping that it will
be called VS 2007.