Craig Holmquist <craigh...@gmail.com> added the comment: Here's an option, though unfortunately not a trivial one: use a private build of the C runtime. The Windows version of Firefox does this (mozcrt19.dll). The private CRT build doesn't use SxS in any way, so it gets around this issue, as well as other issues like not allowing "for me" installs on Vista (#4018).
For me to build the CRT from the source included with Visual Studio 2008 took some tweaking - apparently having the CRT source build properly out of the box wasn't a priority for MS (the Mozilla CRT seems to be built from the VS2005 source; perhaps that version is more cooperative). It does yield a CRT that links like an ordinary DLL, but the fact that it can't be built without modifications is a major drawback to this solution. Also, I'd assume that the CRT source isn't included in the Express version (and possibly other ones), so that's a downside, too. As far as Python itself, the project configurations would have to be changed to define _CRT_NOFORCE_MANIFEST, suppress the default linking to the stock CRT (/NODEFAULTLIB:msvcrt.lib), and link to the import library for the private CRT. I might try to create an experimental solution config for this. _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4566> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
