[Zope3-dev] Nightly Zope 3 Binary Compiles for WIndows

[Tim Peters]

[Phil Harris]
> Not sure if this interests anyone, but it seems that Microsoft has
> recently released a standalone command-line only version of their
> latest c++ compiler (also does plain c, and c#).
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

A non-optimizing cmdline version of VC 7.1 (aka .NET 2003) has been
available all along; the news there is that MS recently made the optimizing
cmdline compiler available without cost too.

Things to note:

+ Code compiled with VC 7.1 isn't compatible with code compiled
  by VC 6 (the C runtime systems are different).  Python 2.3.3
  was compiled with the latter, and you cannot build extensions
  with VC 7.1 that work with any current version of Python.
  Python 2.4 on Windows will be compiled with VC 7.1.

+ The download above only comes with static link libraries.  At
  least one person reported on python-dev that the compiler sometimes
  generates calls to entry points that are only in the dynamic
  libraries, i.e. it sometimes compiles code that can't run given
  the subset of libraries it comes with.  So there are glitches.