On 2/5/07, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03/02/07, Jorge Vargas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes indeed I had a huge fight with mysqldb driver because of this. Since the > > windows version of mysql is compile with VS2003 and python too getting those > > drivers to build with gcc will require recompiling everything and making it > > incompatible with the stock mysql. > > You don't need to recompile Python with gcc. Whether you need to > recompile MySQL, I can't say. > no but you need to patch distutils to force it to use the windows "free compiler" it can't be doen with gcc because of mysql.
> > This is something that shock me a lot, why python (the official) on windows > > is build with a tool that is not accessible to all developers. Building > > extensions on windows is just a pain... > > I agree that building extensions on Windows can be a real pain. But > it's generally the fault of the 3rd party code, or the extension code, > not of Python itself. > yes that's true the problem comes when you need windows.h or other file that the mingw people can't distribute. > As an example, mod_python used to be a real pain to build, because > Apache (the standard binary) was built with MSVC 6, and Python (the > standard build) with MSVC 7.1. But I believe the mod_python developers > have made some changes, and as a result it *is* now possible to build > mod_python with gcc. > > At the end of the day, it can be a real pain to build your own > extensions on Windows. But in my view, the Python developers have made > a good job of easing that pain as much as possible. Whether choosing > to use MSVC 7.1 was a good *political* move, rather than a good > *technical* one, is a different question, and one I don't intend to > get into :-) > ok lets not :) > Paul. > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
