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| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py b/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py index 9c96451bc..f58d97e49 100644 --- a/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py +++ b/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py @@ -227,15 +227,19 @@ def build_import_library(): # raise DistutilsPlatformError, msg return +#===================================== +# Dealing with Visual Studio MANIFESTS +#===================================== + # Functions to deal with visual studio manifests. Manifest are a mechanism to # enforce strong DLL versioning on windows, and has nothing to do with # distutils MANIFEST. manifests are XML files with version info, and used by -# the OS loader; they are necessary when linking against a DLL no in the system -# path; in particular, python 2.6 is built against the MS runtime 9 (the one -# from VS 2008), which is not available on most windows systems; python 2.6 -# installer does install it in the Win SxS (Side by side) directory, but this -# requires the manifest too. This is a big mess, thanks MS for a wonderful -# system. +# the OS loader; they are necessary when linking against a DLL not in the +# system path; in particular, official python 2.6 binary is built against the +# MS runtime 9 (the one from VS 2008), which is not available on most windows +# systems; python 2.6 installer does install it in the Win SxS (Side by side) +# directory, but this requires the manifest for this to work. This is a big +# mess, thanks MS for a wonderful system. # XXX: ideally, we should use exactly the same version as used by python, but I # have no idea how to obtain the exact version from python. We could use the |