#2 long long on Visual C++ 6.0

[Jack Diederich]

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I have got it to compile using Python 2.3 and Microsoft
Visual C++ 6.0, but had to make some changes.

MSVC doesn't like "long long" as a data type. It's
idea of a "long"
appears to be a 32 bit integer.

I'm not sure what size you want, but your code compiled
and passed the supplied tests using "__int64" instead
of "long long" (which is how MS say to define a 64 bit
long integer).

[Peter]

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Confirmed, also using Python 2.3 with MSVC 6.0 (under Windows XP) with probstat_0.912.tgz

I made a series of #ifdef changes to switch every "long long" to "__int64", but there is probably a nicer way.

[Jack Diederich]

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I started on a revamped 1.0 version last week that is just python-centric
(instead of a python wrapper around a neutral-ish core). That should
make compiling it on windows easier and if you are using python2.5
it should be 64 bit clean too (#ifdef'd for older versions).

This was one of my first python extensions and I've learned a lot
about the C/Python interface in the last four(!) years.