[Bf-committers] Blender 2.45 Release MSVCR71.DLL problem?

[Rodrigo Hernandez]

I just tried to compile Python 2.5.1 on MSYS (MingW) there are some 
issues with the posix module,
but tweaking macros should help (apparently they rely on the _MSC_VER 
macro a bit too much).

I don't think there should be any issues replacing the VC python.dll 
with the Mingw python.dll
as long as there is no C++ function name mangling, the idea would be to 
compile with VC as usual,
 but replace the Python dll in the package.

Anyway, I'll let you all know if I manage to get Python to compile.

Timothy Baldridge wrote:
> The problem comes when mixing runtime libraries. Mixing VC and Cygwin
> is a HUGE no-no, the program will crash without warning for no reason
> (I've done it before). However, mixing mingw and VC *should* be okay.
> I'm doing that now with a project, haven't had any issues yet.
>
> However, I do know that Python's distutils will really complain of the
> compilers don't match. I don't even think you can force a Mingw build
> to load VC modules. I know you cant force a VC2003 build to load
> VC2005/VC6 modules (tried that too).
>
> Timothy
>
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