On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > Am 12.01.2013 08:45, schrieb Alec Taylor: >> There have been various threads for MSVC 2010[1][2], but the most >> recent thing I found for MSVC 2012 was [3]… from 6 months ago. >> >> Basically I want to be able to compile bcrypt—and yes I should be >> using Keccak—x64 binaries on Windows x64. >> >> There are other packages also which I will benefit from, namely I >> won't need to use the unofficial setup files and will finally be able >> to use virtualenv. >> >> So anyway, can I get an update on the status of MSVC 2010 and MSVC >> 2012 compatibility? > > The problem is that every MSVC has its own libc / CRT (msvcrt.dll) with > its own implementations of malloc(), FILE pointer, thread local storage, > errno etc. You shouldn't mix multiple CRTs in one program as this may > lead to crashes and hard to find bugs. > > Why do you want to compile your own Keccak / SHA-3 binaries anyway? I > have build and released binaries for X86 and X86_64 Windows and for > Python 2.6 and 3.3. For Python 3.4 I'm working on a PEP about the > integration of pbkdf2, bcrypt and scrypt into Python's stdlib. > > Christian
Would be awesome to get these built into stdlib. Compiling my own versions mostly for virtualenv purposes; though sometimes I can't find the binary on: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
