Robin Becker wrote:
actually I want to build the PIL extension for 2.4 as pyd and include various libraries eg zlib and jpeg. To avoid the missing dlls issue we have done this in the past by incorporating the zlib/jpeg code using static libraries for both zlib and jpeg.
It seems I can use the static lib built with MSC 6 with the extension code compiled with MSC 7.1. At least the extnsion build doesn't complain. Whether this is really allowed is another matter.
I guess that it won't work if something malloc'ed from the MSC 6 runtime is free'd by the MSC 7.1 runtime.
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I thought that static .libs didn't make reference to the dll's they need; isn't that done at load time?
As for rebuilding that's easy; the hard part is having all the versions available at once. I prefer to keep common code in one place so would prefer to have only one static lib for these non version dependant things.
Daniel
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