Roger Binns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I guess you can close this now. Unfortunately SourceForge goes out of its way to not make an easy link for the MinGW mailing list but you can see the messages on 8th July 2008: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=mingw-users&viewmonth=200807&viewday=8
Basically MinGW erroneously ships a .lib saying localtime is in MSVCR90.DLL when it isn't. That means there is no link failure but the pyd will fail to load without information as to why. Fixing the .lib means that localtime is picked up from MSVCRT.DLL (ie no version in name) and everything appears to work well. The MinGW project also claims they only support MSVCRT.DLL and not any of the numbered ones, so basically it is luck they work. Noone pointed out any compile time directives to direct versioning of MSVCRT. I guess this is more fuel for the semi-regular flame war about free software and free compilers on Windows, but not in this ticket! _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3308> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
