Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

[illume]

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
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