[issue45257] Compiling 3.8 branch on Windows attempts to use incompatible libffi version

2021-09-21 Thread William Proffitt
William Proffitt added the comment: Ah yes, thank you Steve. I see the commit you're referencing is the cherry pick from upstream onto the 3.8 branch, but it's newer than the tag 3.8.12 I was using. Looks like I won't have to do anything if I wait until 3.8.13 before doing this again

[issue45257] Compiling 3.8 branch on Windows attempts to use incompatible libffi version

2021-09-21 Thread William Proffitt
New submission from William Proffitt : Wasn't sure where to file this. I built Python 3.8.12 for Windows recently from the latest bugfix source release in the cpython repository. One tricky thing came up I wanted to write-up in case it matters to someone else. The version of libffi