New submission from Gili T.:
msvc9compiler needs to check for the VS110COMNTOOLS environment variable in
order to support Visual Studio 2012. Currently it complains "cannot find
vcvarsall.bat".
The following workaround works for now:
SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS110COMNTOOLS%
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New submission from Gili T.:
Python keeps on crashing with error:
The following repro steps are a slight variation of
http://packages.python.org/RhodeCode/setup.html.
My installation environment is Windows 7, 64-bit, Visual Studio 2012. I doubt
the bug is specific to this environment but I
Gili T. added the comment:
Why? :)
I ask because all the application I depend upon only run against Python 2.x
(Rhodecode, Mercurial, etc). I'd love for them to upgrade but it's not really
in my control.
Has there been some sort of policy change within Python to stop supp
Gili T. added the comment:
Yes, Visual Studio 2012 is used when installing Rhodecode. I'd love to isolate
this further but I don't know anything about Python. I'm just an end-user of
Rhodecode.
I filed a bug report with the Rhodecode author (asking for help) but I think we
Gili T. added the comment:
Hey Brian,
I'm curious why mixing different versions of Visual Studio runtimes would
result in a problem. I thought you can mix different runtimes so long as:
1. You link against a DLL (as opposed to static linking).
2. You use the same kind of library (deb
Gili T. added the comment:
I read http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-August/121460.html and
I believe they are wrong.
I have personally run into these problems (each library maintaining its own CRT
with separate heaps, file handles, etc) when static linking was used, but when