Compiling python modules with DEBUG defined on MSVC

Question

Python rather stupidly has a pragma directive in its include files that forces a link against python26_d.lib when the DEBUG preprocessor variable i

Answer 1

After you comment out "#define Py_DEBUG" on line 332 and modify

#   ifdef _DEBUG
#    pragma comment(lib,"python26_d.lib")
#   else

to

#   ifdef _DEBUG
#    pragma comment(lib,"python26.lib")
#   else

you do not need to python26_d.lib anymore.