On 27 October 2014 09:44, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > I view it as critical (because availability of binaries is *already* > enough of a problem in the Windows world, without making it worse) > that we avoid this sort of fragmentation. I'm not seeing an > acknowledgement from the mingw side that they agree. That's my > concern. If we both agree, there's nothing to argue about.
I think there's consensus on this front. From Ray: "MinGW-w64 assumes the very old msvcrt.dll files from Windows XP SP3 and XP64 specifically to avoid this mess." That assumption will allow MinGW-w64 to link with the appropriate MSVCRT versions for extention building without anything breaking. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com