sturlamolden wrote: > Julien Fiore wrote: > >>Thanks for your remark, Sturlamolden. >> >>Is there a free version of the "Visual C++ 2003" compiler available on >>the web? I have found "Visual C++ 2005 Express edition" >>(http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/). According to >>Micrsoft, it replaces VC++2003 >>(http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/). Is VC++2005ee the >>good compiler to compile a Pyrex module (or any Python extension) ? >>Does it link with msvcr71.dll ? > > > The bad news is that "Visual C++ 2005 Express" links with msvcr80.dll, > which incompatible with both msvcrt.dll and msvcr71.dll. What you need > is the "Microsoft .NET Framework SDK Version 1.1". It contains version > 7.1 of Microsoft's C/C++ compiler and links with the correct CRT. > > http://tinyurl.com/5flob > > I am not sure if this is an optimizing compiler. The free available Visual C++ 2003 compiler is the optimizing one. You have to get it separately downloading the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 which comes with the Professional version of Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 compiler and linker.
Claudio > Microsoft did not give > away their optimizing compiler prior to "Visual C++ 2005 Express". Even > the standard version of Visual Studio did not have an optimizing > compiler, it only shipped with the professional and enterprise > versions. If this compiler does not optimize, you may try to make > "Visual C++ 2005 Express" use the import library for msvcr71.dll which > ships with the .NET SDK. > > Now you know the meaning of the word "DLL HELL". > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
