help compiling Python on vs 2008!

[inhahe]

VS2005 seems to be officially supported.  Here's part of the readme file in 
the PCBuild8 directory in the Python 2.5 source.

"
 Building Python using VC++ 8.0
-------------------------------------
This directory is used to build Python for Win32 platforms, e.g. Windows
95, 98 and NT.  It requires Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0
(a.k.a. Visual Studio 2005).  There are two Platforms defined, Win32
and x64.
(For other Windows platforms and compilers, see ../PC/readme.txt.)
"

Although I take your point about sharing resources.  I'm not sure I should 
bother compiling 2.6, since I'll probably come across/already use modules 
that I need that don't support 2.6 since it's so new.  So it would be nice 
to know why following the instructions doesn't work.  Compilers never work 
for me, though.. even when I follow instructions and they work for everybody 
else.  It's like a schroedinbug - I just don't expect them to work.  As a 
matter of principle, though, it /should/ work.. so it's gotta be 
*somebody's* job to debug this! :P

"Christian Heimes" <lists at cheimes.de> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1287.1211058342.12834.python-list at python.org...
> Matthieu Brucher schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did not manage to build extension with distutils with Python compiled 
>> with
>> VS different than 2003. The need for 2003 was hard-coded in distutils.
>> You can try building extensions with VS2008 with Scons. This is what I do 
>> a
>> lot, and everything works fine as long as the interface does not use
>> standard structures (like FILE, custom structures are fine) or objects
>> allocated in the extension is freed in the extension.
>
> Python 2.5 is compiled with VS 2003. Neither VS 2005 nor 2008 are
> officially supported.
>
> You can compile extensions with a different version of MS VC but it can
> get you in a lot of trouble. Every version of the VS Compiler uses its
> own C Runtime Library (MSVCRT). You can't share some resources like
> allocated memory and FILE* objects between MSVCRTs.
>
> Christian
>