Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

I have read that Python extension modules must link to the same C run-time as the Python interpreter. This I can appreciate. But does this requirement extend to the C libraries an extension module wraps. The case in point is Pygame and SDL. The Pygame extension modules are built with distutils, so for Python 2.6 using Visual Studio 2008 should ensure the .pyd files link to msvcr90.dll. But SDL is built using Msys/MinGW and the configure/make tool chain. This fails when linking to msvcr90.dll since the small test programs configure builds lack manifest files. They fail to load msvcr90.dll, raising an R6034 error instead. So besides heap management and FILE pointers, is there any reason SDL, or any C dependency, needs to link to the same C run-time as Python? If I ensure SDL frees memory it allocates and does not directly access a file opened by Python can I just use another C run-time such as msvcrt?


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