Andi Vajda <va...@apache.org> wrote: > I believe MSVC 2008 == 9.0 but I could be wrong. I also seem to recall > that Python 2.7 requires that version. So you should also try Python > 2.6 on Win 7.
I asked about this on the mingw list, with the following result: Charles Wilson <cwils...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > The official python.org win32 python26 distribution > uses the msvcr90.dll libc; anything compiled with mingw uses the > msvcrt.dll, and THAT may be the problem. > > See here: > http://jove.prohosting.com/iwave/ipython/issues.html > ... > There is a way to hack your mingw > installation to use the msvcr90.dll runtime, but I've never tried it > myself. See this wiki page: > http://www.mingw.org/wiki/HOWTO_Use_the_GCC_specs_file I'll try that -- getting mingw to use the same C library that Python uses. Looks like you can do an in-place update -- the pyMinGW toolkit provides a tool which does that. Bill
