On 22/03/2007 3.13, John Pye wrote: >> I suggest people to try my GCC 4.1.2 binary installer for Windows which fully >> integrates with Python and has scripts in place to solve the MSVCR71.DLL >> problem. It was announced on this very list a few days ago: >> >> http://www.develer.com/oss/GccWinBinaries > > Hi Giovanni, > > Thanks very much for that suggestion. It looks like you have done some > good work on addressing this problem. > > I wonder if you might be able to expand on what those 'serious > problems' with GCC 4.x on the Windows platform are?
Have a look here: http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/GccStatus > Also, can you comment on how one might use your compiler bundle with > MSYS? In particular, I like to run SCons from an MSYS prompt. Assuming > I don't want to kill my old MinGW and Cygwin installations, how do you > recommend that one proceeds to set up a working GCC 4 environment on > Windows? (I haven't downloaded it just yet; I'm on Linux today!) I personally don't use MSYS so I don't know exactly. I use SCons too, and I simply run it from the normal command prompt. I *believe* it's sufficient to unpack MSYS somewhere (you can either unpack it *over* the directory where you installed my GCC package, or somewhere else, I believe it works either way); since the GCC binaries are added to the system PATH by the installer, you should able to run it anyway. You can try by simply invoking "gcc -v" at the MSYS prompt and see if it's picking up the right version of GCC. I would appreciate if you give some feedback about this. I would like to incorporate your findings on the webpage. -- Giovanni Bajo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list