Howard Lightstone schrieb: > Has there been any progress on being able to build extensions with MSVC8 > (aka Visual Studio 2005)?
No. No progress will happen throughout the release of Python 2.5. To get the facts straight: it *might* be possible to build an extension with msvc8 (thus linking with msvcr8.dll); this should work as long as the extension doesn't use any API that is forbidden for the mixed-CRT case. Only a source inspection of the extension module can tell whether there is any risky code. > Since the "free" compiler from Microsoft is now VC8, I *assume* this will > be the new method..... Your assumption is wrong; this isn't officially supported. > 2.5 itself rebuilds using PCbuild8, as do tkinter (but using Tcl 8.4.14 and > Tk 8.4.14) however none of the distutils-generated extensions will build. If you built Python 2.5 yourself with VS 2005, you should be able to build extension modules as well with distutils, by setting MSSdk and DISTUTILS_USE_SDK appropriately. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
