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[Trent Nelson <trent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Bill definitely has a valid point
> 
> Bill?

William A. Rowe Jr., aka 'Bill' ;-)

> > I remember how much trouble I had trying to get the out-of-the-
> box Windows builds of BerkeleyDB and TclTk to work with
> Python.  BerkeleyDB was using the most esoteric compiler and
> linker flags that I've ever come across, and the resulting binary,
> especially in 64-bit builds, just flat out wasn't suitable for
> linking against.  I mean, it would link, 'cause the API was
> compatible at the source level, but you'd get the strangest
> crashes as soon as you attempted to call anything in that
> library.  TclTk wasn't much better -- and SQLite was problematic
> too, now that I think of it.
> 
> What is the reason for those weird flags?

I couldn't find any technical reason behind the weird flags.  I just put it down to Windows unfamiliarity, or lack of Windows-savvy developers on the projects.