sturlamolden wrote: > I don't think this is safe. MinGW links with msvcrt.dll whereas the > main Python distribution links with msvcr71.dll (due to Visual C++ > 2003).
In order to make minGW link with msvcr71.dll, edit the text file c:\mingw\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.2.4\specs and change "-lmsvcrt" to "-lmsvcr71". Now MinGW will link with the same CRT as Python 2.4. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list