On 2015-05-27 09:25, Paul Moore wrote:
On 27 May 2015 at 09:10, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
The old distutils docs aren't gone, the top level links just moved to the
distutils package docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/distutils.html
I kept them (with the same deep link URLs) because I know there's stuff in
there that isn't currently documented anywhere else. I moved them to a more
obscure location because there's also stuff in there that's thoroughly
outdated, and it's a non-trivial task to figure out which is which and move
the still useful stuff to a more appropriate home :)
Thanks.
Your plan worked perfectly, because I never knew they were there :-)
https://docs.python.org/3/install/index.html#older-versions-of-python-and-mingw
implies that the libpythonXY.a files are only needed in older versions
of Python/mingw. I don't know how true that is, although I do know
that mingw should be able to link directly to a DLL without needing a
lib file.
It would be interesting to know if MRAB's build process can use the
DLL, rather than requiring a lib file (or for that matter if distutils
works without the lib file!)
Steve Dower's post has prompted me to look again at building the regex
module for Python 3.5, 32-bit and 64-bit, using just Mingw64 and
linking against python32.dll. It works!
Earlier versions of Python, however, including Python 2.7, still seem
to want libpython??.a.
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