On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:59:30AM -0700, Robert McFadzean wrote: > I have been trying to build MySQLdb for python and A. Dustman has come to the > conclusion that the minGW32 compiler that I am using will not work with a > Windows ( os is Windows XP) versions of Python and MySQL. Can anyone here > confirm that he is right. Is there a possible work around? Dustman > suggested that I would have to compile Python and MySQL with the gcc compiler > for it to work. A quick search finds a plethora of resources for how to use mingw to compile python extentions using the standard Windows Python distribution. http://www.google.ca/search?q=python+compiler+mingw32&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Many of those are out of date and some steps can be skipped and either the export file is actually shipped with 2.4 and 2.5 or mingw32-gcc just deals with it interally. I haven't done this in a while, but, I think all you really need to do at this point is: python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 python setup.py install Note, you can make the '--compiler=mingw32' a default setting by adding """ [build] compiler=mingw32 """ to c:\Python2x\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg, at which point all you have to do is: python setup.py install I don't know any details particular to building MySQLdb. -Chris > > Robert G. McFadzean > Instructor > Vermilion School of Agriculture > Lakeland College > 5707 47 Ave West > Vermilion AB T9X 1K5 > Tlf: (780) 853-4890 > Fax: (780) 853-8704 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
