The builds I am responsible for include it because someone reported an issue and was persistent and helpful enough that I fixed it for them.
That said, until MinGW agrees on a stable branch/version/fork, there seems to be a good chance that the shipped lib won't work for some people. If this is what's happened here, I see it as a good enough reason to stop shipping the lib and to add instructions on generating it instead (the gendef/dlltool dance). Cheers, Steve Top-posted from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Paul Moore<mailto:p.f.mo...@gmail.com> Sent: 5/26/2015 2:50 To: MRAB<mailto:pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> Cc: Python-Dev<mailto:python-dev@python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Unable to build regex module against Python 3.5 32-bit On 26 May 2015 at 07:49, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you get the same failure when using distutils to build the extension? Hmm, I just checked and it seems that only Python 3.5 ships libpythonXY.a by default - 3.4 and earlier (at least on my machine) don't have it. Presumably you generated it yourself for the previous versions? So I wonder if this is a difference between how you built your version previously and how the shipped version is now built. The code to build the shipped version is in Tools\msi\dev\dev.wixproj. It runs gendef - "$(BuildPath)$(PyDllName).dll" > "$(IntermediateOutputPath)mingwlib.def" dlltool --dllname $(PyDllName).dll --def "$(IntermediateOutputPath)mingwlib.def" --output-lib "$(BuildPath)lib$(PyDllName).a" -m $(_GenDefPlatform) which looks OK to me (_GenDefPlatform is i386 on 32-bit and i386:x86-64 on 64-bit). Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/steve.dower%40microsoft.com
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