Stephen Kellet said: <quote> Pat, could you include some context in your replies? I have no idea if you are replying to my comments about Visual Studio Express or someone else? The only text I see in your replies is what you write, no text from the posting you are replying to. As it is I've ignored all your replies so far as I'm not sure I'm the person you are addressing (until I saw the above, now I'm confused). </quote>
Sorry about that. I'm replying using Google Groups and making a total mess of things. :-( David Fraser asked if I had tried to compile a Python extension for Python 2.4 using minGW. I said that I had not (but I have for Python 2.3.5). Here is the rest of my reply, for future reference: We ran into some issues with Python 2.4 that caused us to return to Python 2.3.5. But I would really like to upgrade to Python 2.4. So I started researching the subject before I did anything. If you are telling me that minGW can compile extensions that are compatible with the Python 2.4 that uses msvcr71.dll, then that is good news indeed. Is there anything that needs to be configured or patched to make this happen? And how does minGW know which dll to link? What if I have both versions of Python installed - 2.3.5 and 2.4? Is there an easy way to detect this and switch between the two dlls? If I'm asking questions already answered elsewhere, I'd love a link to that resource, if you have it. Patrick K. O'Brien Orbtech http://www.orbtech.com Schevo http://www.schevo.org Pypersyst http://www.pypersyst.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
