Re: [pygame] Pygame and Python 2.6

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well I was wrong about \WINDOWS\WinSxS and the search path. It is recognized, 
but I still get the R6034 error. I cannot get distutils to build a Pyrex 
extension with MinGW because distutils.msvc9compiler cannot find vcvarsall.bat. 
I did successfully run a program, python.c from SVN, compiled with MinGW and 
linked to python26.dll. So python26.dll lacks the restrictions of msvcr90.dll. 
And msvcr90.dll can be loaded indirectly.

**warning, speculation ahead

This suggests that, if the Python developers are willing, python26.dll could 
expose the C standard library functions itself. It would then just be a matter 
of using custom C export libraries, just as I now do for msvcr71. Python stub 
functions have already been discussioned on Python-dev.

Lenard


Quoting Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 
[snip C code and Windows error message]
> 
> This is with msvcr90.dll in copied to some path other than \WINDOWS\WinSxS .
> If 
> I try [sic] adding WinSxS to the path it is just ignored. I gather it has 
something
> 
> to do with a missing manifest.
> 
> Lenard
> 
> 
> Quoting Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > I'm curious - what exactly is the error you are getting?
> >