Please note: I want to build my own code in Debug mode for debugging. I don't want to build or use the debug version of Python. I also can't
Python does this on purpose so you don't accidentally mix different versions of the C runtime library. This would happen ff you defined DEBUG in your code but use Python built without DEBUG - Python using a different name for its lib prevents this.
Note that just shipping the _d.lib wouldn't help - you would need the _d.dll itself, plus *all* extension modules you use - *all* .pyd/.dll etc files have the trailing _d, and a debug version of Python refuses to load the release versions without the _d.
I'd recommend leaving DEBUG etc disbled, but enable debug information and disable optimizations while debugging.
Cheers, Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
