hi again, I should have said, the msvcr90.dll does not work on win9x machines - as well as not being supported by ms.
cu, On May 1, 4:02 pm, illume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > after a little research it appears that win9x is not supported by the > msvcr90.dll run time. > > Can you confirm this Lenard? > > Has anyone tested the new python binaries that link to msvcr90.dll on > win9x machines? > > cheers, > > On May 1, 3:05 pm, "L. Lindstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > L. Lindstrom wrote: > > > Christian Heimes wrote: > > >> L. Lindstrom schrieb: > > [snip] > > >>> [B]esides heap management and FILE pointers, is there any reason SDL, or > > >>> any C dependency, needs to link to the same C run-time as Python? If I > > >>> ensure SDL frees memory it allocates and does not directly access a file > > >>> opened by Python can I just use another C run-time such as msvcrt? > > > >> Your analysis of the problem and the implication of mixing CRTs is > > >> correct. However ... > > > >> It should be trivial to modify the build systemof SDL so that the > > >> manifest is integrated into the DLLs. Everything else is a hack. It > > >> *should* work and in reality it *does* work for most cases. But someday > > >> you'll hit a solid wall and get strange and hard to debug segfaults. > > > [snip] > > > Linking to msvcr90.dll is possible with MinGW. The problem is with the > > > configure scripts. So I can run configure against msvcrt.dll, then > > > switch to mscvr90.dll for make. If this works I will make SDL and a test > > > program available on-line so someone can find the appropriate manifests. > > > Here is my attempt to link SDL and a test program with msvcr90.dll. It > > can be found athttp://www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame. The md5sum is: > > > f5b71d9934d35c35a24b668ad8023146 *VC-2008-Run-Time-test.zip > > > Both lack a manifest. The test program and SDL work when a surrogate > > run-time is provided, a renamed msvcr71.dll . So if someone can show me > > the necessary manifest to make SDL use the C run-time installed by the > > Python 2.6 installer I would appreciate it. SDL is built with MinGW so I > > doubt I can distribute the run-time with it. > > > -- > > Lenard Lindstrom > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" % ('len-l', 'telus', 'net') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
