Jarek Zgoda wrote: > Filip Wasilewski napisa³(a): > > > There is an easy way to build Python extensions on Windows with MinGW > > and it works fine for me. Just follow these steps: > > It was brougt to my attention that mingw-compiled extensions for Python > 2.4 use other malloc() that Python 2.4, is it true? Can this have any > impact on stability?
I have inspected the dll dependencies for python24.dll (ActiveState build, but I think this is also true for regular one) and my custom extensions built with MinGW and both of them use malloc() from msvcr71.dll. I think that as long as the extensions are linked against proper version of msvcr (7.1) there should not be such surprises. Other thing is that Python uses it's own memory allocator [1] and to avoid problems with memory corruption one should not try to allocate memory with PyMem_Malloc() and free it with free() and so forth. cheers, fw [1] http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.3/api/memoryOverview.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
