Hi Mike, > I tend to use MinGW32 (http://www.mingw.org/) to compile C extension for > Python on Windows. I know from experience it can compile and link against > VS2003 and VS2008 for different Python versions. I remember doing it at least > for 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 using source code distributions of packages with pip or > setuptools/distribute. MinGW32 can figure out how to link against the right > library version.
Thanks for the info! But in this case I think we have a slightly different problem. The generally available Python builds (from Python.org and distributors) are VS2008, and if HDF5 itself isn't built with VS2008, we have two separate versions of malloc and free from the two separate msvcrt*.dll runtimes. At the end of the day what we really need is *HDF5* built with the 2008 runtime dll. This is why dropping VS2008 support in HDF5 is concerning. Andrew _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
