Re: Dia with newer python on win32

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 21.08.2007 17:43, Steffen Macke wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> > we want to use dia as drawing tool on win32 machines (WinXP/W2k).
> > The installation of the binary package on win32 is O.K. but the integration
> > of the python plugin isn't.
> > I think the reason is the old python dll (2.2) dia looks for.
> >
> > How can I get dia working with it's python plugin and a newer installed
> > python ?
>
> Unfortunately, you'll have to compile Dia and all its depencies
> yourself in order to use a Python version 2.2 on Windows. The reason is that Dia is using
> msvcrt.dll, while newer Python versions are linked against msvcrtXX.dll versions.
Still almost, but not completely true. The last official Python version
build against msvcrt is 2.3 not 2.2. See also:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2006-September/msg00045.html

        Hans

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