On 1/08/2012 10:48 AM, Damon Register wrote:
I am attempting to build gtk and glade using mingw/msys. It seems that
some
of the packages require python. I installed 2.7.3 using the installer from
python.org. That worked for some of the packages but now I am trying to do
one that needs python-config which I don't find in the installation
directory.
I tried building from source using mingw/msys but that had too many
problems
so I gave up on that. I thought I might try building with MSVC 2010 since
it appears to be supported and I have that at work. There are a few
problems
with this:
1. though I have looked in a few readme files, I don't see instructions for
installing what I have just built using MSVC. Where can I find the
instructions for installing after building with MSVC?
There is no such process. In general, you can just run directly from
the built tree.
2. I have searched the project directory but I don't find
python-config. Is
this some sort of optional thing that isn't built by default? I tried
searching this list and although I find a few questions about it, I
don't
see an answer to where I can find it.
I'm afraid I don't know what python-config is. It appears it might be a
reflection of how Python was configured and build on *nix systems - if
that is the case then it is expected that one does not exist for Windows
(as it doesn't use the *nix build chain).
3. It seems that MSVC doesn't produce the .a library files needed for
linking
into a mingw built program. Do I have to do that fun trick to
create the
.a from the dll?
I'm surprised MSVC *can* build .a files for mingw - but AFAIK, even if
MSVC could do that, I believe Python makes no attempt to build with
support for linking into mingw programs.
Mark
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