[Numpy-discussion] mingw-w64 tutorial ?

[Sebastian Haase]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:02 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Sebastian Haase <seb.haase at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Robin,
>> thanks for those links.
>> My experience is more like the one described by fuzion at
>> http://nukeit.org/compile-python-2-7-packages-with-visual-studio-2010-express/
>> That is, I did not see any problem - yet.
>
> The problem is that when you will have issues, they will be painful
> and hard to debug. For example, you will get a file descriptor from
> some part of C code using one CRT, and will try to access it in some
> another part using read/write from another CRT, and it will not work
> at all. Given that using the SDK for 2008 is easier than the one for
> 2010 anyway, I don't see any reason not to use the recommended one
> when developing against python2.6/2.7.
>
> cheers,
>
> David
Thanks for the insight.
One more:  Is python 3.1 + 3.2 then to be used with VS 2010  - i.e. msvcr100?
-S.