Alex Martelli wrote: > Jocular, but not sarcastic. I have no problems using mingw if that's > what it takes -- the later instructions I saw were those suggesting the > Toolkit instead, so those are the ones I'm trying to follow. What's the > updated URL for the instructions about using mingw instead?
Install mingw (an large task in and of itself that I'm not going to go into here, but look at http://www.mingw.org/) and make sure the bin/ directory is on your PATH. You will have to edit the gcc specs file to replace "-lmsvcrt" with "-lmsvcr71". Its filename is lib/mingw32/3.4.2/specs . After that, use the --compiler=mingw32 option on build_ext when using distutils. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
