Download Microsoft C/C++ compiler for use with Python 2.6/2.7 ASAP

[sturlamolden]

On 6 Jul, 19:11, Thomas Jollans <tho... at jollans.com> wrote:

> Python is written in C. How does the C++ runtime enter into it?

The C and C++ runtimes interact (e.g. stdlib.h and <iostream>), malloc
and new, etc. With g++ you have a C++ standard library compiled
against msvcrt.dll, whereas Python is using msvcr90.dll.

We can use the C++ runtime msvcp90.dll used by VC++ 2008, but this DLL
is binary incompatible with g++ (GNU uses a different ABI for C++).