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Win32 Libs for 2.4

Robin Becker robin at reportlab.com
Mon Dec 6 12:09:50 EST 2004 
Daniel Dittmar wrote:
> Robin Becker wrote:
> 
>> actually I want to build the PIL extension for 2.4 as pyd and include 
>> various libraries eg zlib and jpeg. To avoid the missing dlls issue we 
>> have done this in the past by incorporating the zlib/jpeg code using 
>> static libraries for both zlib and jpeg.
>>
>> It seems I can use the static lib built with MSC 6 with the extension 
>> code compiled with MSC 7.1. At least the extnsion build doesn't 
>> complain. Whether this is really allowed is another matter.
> 
> 
> I guess that it won't work if something malloc'ed from the MSC 6 runtime 
> is free'd by the MSC 7.1 runtime.
......

I thought that static .libs didn't make reference to the dll's they need; isn't 
that done at load time?

As for rebuilding that's easy; the hard part is having all the versions 
available at once. I prefer to keep common code in one place so would prefer to 
have only one static lib for these non version dependant things.


> 
> Daniel


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Robin Becker
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