Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

[illume]

hi again,

I should have said, the msvcr90.dll does not work on win9x machines -
as well as not being supported by ms.


cu,



On May 1, 4:02 pm, illume <ren... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after a little research it appears that win9x is not supported by the
> msvcr90.dll run time.
>
> Can you confirm this Lenard?
>
> Has anyone tested the new python binaries that link to msvcr90.dll on
> win9x machines?
>
> cheers,
>
> On May 1, 3:05 pm, "L. Lindstrom" <spam-t... at telus.net> wrote:
>
> > L. Lindstrom wrote:
> > > Christian Heimes wrote:
> > >> L. Lindstrom schrieb:
> > [snip]
> > >>> [B]esides heap management and FILE pointers, is there any reason SDL, or
> > >>> any C dependency, needs to link to the same C run-time as Python? If I
> > >>> ensure SDL frees memory it allocates and does not directly access a file
> > >>> opened by Python can I just use another C run-time such as msvcrt?
>
> > >> Your analysis of the problem and the implication of mixing CRTs is
> > >> correct. However ...
>
> > >> It should be trivial to modify the build systemof SDL so that the
> > >> manifest is integrated into the DLLs. Everything else is a hack. It
> > >> *should* work and in reality it *does* work for most cases. But someday
> > >> you'll hit a solid wall and get strange and hard to debug segfaults.
>
> > [snip]
> > > Linking to msvcr90.dll is possible with MinGW. The problem is with the
> > > configure scripts. So I can run configure against msvcrt.dll, then
> > > switch to mscvr90.dll for make. If this works I will make SDL and a test
> > > program available on-line so someone can find the appropriate manifests.
>
> > Here is my attempt to link SDL and a test program with msvcr90.dll. It
> > can be found athttp://www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame. The md5sum is:
>
> > f5b71d9934d35c35a24b668ad8023146 *VC-2008-Run-Time-test.zip
>
> > Both lack a manifest. The test program and SDL work when a surrogate
> > run-time is provided, a renamed msvcr71.dll . So if someone can show me
> > the necessary manifest to make SDL use the C run-time installed by the
> > Python 2.6 installer I would appreciate it. SDL is built with MinGW so I
> > doubt I can distribute the run-time with it.
>
> > --
> > Lenard Lindstrom
> > "%s@%s.%s" % ('len-l', 'telus', 'net')