On 7/31/2012 11:49 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:
On 1/08/2012 10:48 AM, Damon Register wrote:1. though I have looked in a few readme files, I don't see instructions for installing what I have just built using MSVC. Where can I find the instructions for installing after building with MSVC?There is no such process. In general, you can just run directly from the built tree.
That is a bummer. That makes me more curious about how the Windows installer was made and how all the pieces were gathered together.
I'm afraid I don't know what python-config is. It appears it might be a reflection of how Python was configured and build on *nix systems - if that is the case then it is expected that one does not exist for Windows (as it doesn't use the *nix build chain).
which means, I guess, that mingw is barely supported if at all. While it may be Windows, mingw/msys is a nice way to build many programs that are unix oriented. I suppose that just for fun I should try to build python on SuSE to see how it goes.
3. It seems that MSVC doesn't produce the .a library files needed for linking into a mingw built program. Do I have to do that fun trick to create the .a from the dll?I'm surprised MSVC *can* build .a files for mingw - but AFAIK, even if MSVC could do that, I believe Python makes no attempt to build with support for linking into mingw programs.
I don't know that MSVC can do this. The only process of which I am aware is a two step process using pexports and dlltool to generate the .a file from a dll. One reason I was using the python.org installer is that it already had the python27.a file. Now I am even more curious about what was used to build python and create that installer. The python.org installer provided all I needed for build most python dependent apps with mingw until I ran into one that needed python-config. I suppose that if python-config does what I suspect it does (produce cflags and ldflags as does pkg-config) then perhaps I could just fake it by replacing use of python-config with what the cflags and ldflags should be for where I have python. Damon Register -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
