How to make py2.5 distutil to use VC2005?

[甜瓜]

2008/6/4 David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:38 AM, 甜瓜 <littlesweetmelon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>    Well, IMO, the format of binary files generated by VC2003 and
>> VC2005 is compatible in most cases.
>
> Problem arise with the C runtime, not with object file format. In
> particular, python uses the C api for file handling, and the standard
> C is definitely not ABI compatible within VS versions.
Maybe VS runtime library is a problem, but I don't think VS binary is
in compatible with ISO C ABI. If so, VS-built application can not call
any function in libraries built by other C compiler even with __cdecl
extern "C" specifications.

> I strongly advise you against using VS 2005 (with the binary python;
> if you build python by yourself, then no problem; I don't know if it
> is possible to build python with VS 2005). You *will* get crashes in
> many cases.
>
> David
>

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