You should be enjoying your holiday (sounds like you could be busy just after it). I'll try to convince you when you get back.
Will go something like: cross compilation, homogeneous toolchain environment, possible to have control of DLL base addresses, ncurses support, winpthreads, and whatever else I can come up with by then. Cheers, Ray. On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Ruben Van Boxem <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/9/11 Ray Donnelly <[email protected]> >> >> I've merged a script and some patches [1] with the Google Android NDK >> that allow me to cross compile Python 2.7.3 and also GDB using it >> (built GDB then runs on Windows, Darwin or Linux). I can also build >> these GDB/NDKs for 32 and 64bit on each of these hosts. The link I've >> pasted is to the initial commit, there's been some bug fixes since >> then. The cross compilation support for Python was done mostly by >> Roumen Petrov [2] & [3], I just finished it off, adding Darwin support >> and fixing a few MinGW problems. Maybe this could be of some use? I'm >> hoping to get it integrated into some of the mingw-w64 toolchain build >> scripts (Ruben's maybe?) and also upstreamed to CPython (though this >> would be very difficult). > > > Although I appreciate your efforts for allowing the building of Python with > MinGW (and I'm hoping the efforts will be appreciated by Python upstream), I > see absolutely no advantage over just using the offiial Python release and > extracting the dll's from that. They will certainly work, and do not pollute > the interwebz with somewhat incompatible Python dll's. Just my opinion > though :) > > Ruben > >> >> >> [1] >> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/ndk/+/e534e36be95815bdfa09756fa040acb2321a09c2 >> [2] http://bugs.python.org/issue3754 >> [3] http://bugs.python.org/issue3871 >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ray. >> >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: ext K. Frank [mailto:[email protected]] >> >> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 6:19 PM >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Fwd: [Development] Choosing a new MinGW >> >> for Qt 5 >> >> >> >> I'm not using python for anything, so I don't care one way or another. >> >> If not using python would solve the slow gdb start-up problem, I'd give >> >> it a try, >> >> but, if I understand you correctly, you're saying that that's not the >> >> problem. >> > >> > Adding to that, Qt Creator nowadays _requires_ a Python-enabled gdb. So >> > if we're talking about a MinGW-64 package suited for Qt development, >> > disabling python is a no-go. >> > >> > Regards >> > >> > Kai >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > Live Security Virtual Conference >> > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and >> > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. >> > Discussions >> > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in >> > malware >> > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mingw-w64-public mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Live Security Virtual Conference >> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and >> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions >> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware >> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Mingw-w64-public mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
