Re: [Mingw-w64-public] how to invoke (install?) mingw64.

2009-04-24 Thread patrick flaherty
Starting with this: http://oldwiki.mingw.org/index.php/Python%20extensions I believe the problem to be in distutils. Something needs to be modified to accommodate x86_64-pc-mingw32-gcc. So far, from distutils, I've been through msvccompiler.py, msvc9compiler.py and cccompiler.py. I'm making

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] how to invoke (install?) mingw64.

2009-04-24 Thread patrick flaherty
Thanx Tor - did as you instructed. The hello.exe compiled with x86_64-pc-mingw32-gcc is about 10X the size of the one compiled with simply gcc which would seem to indicate that the former is a 64 bit image and the latter 32. But how does one check an image to directly to see if it's compiled

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] how to invoke (install?) mingw64.

2009-04-24 Thread patrick flaherty
Here's an idea. So that I can get my arms around mingw64. What would be the barebones gcc command, using mingw64, to build a sample hello.c? This would, in effect, strip out any python considerations. thanx - pat --

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] how to invoke (install?) mingw64.

2009-04-24 Thread patrick flaherty
Hello Kai - thanx for your response. Kai Tietz wrote: Hello Patrick, 2009/4/24 patrick flaherty : Hi, I successfully built the Sourceforge pyOpenSSL project with mingw32. But I'm on a 64-bit machine and have had problems with loading the project's DLLs at runtime (on a 32 b

[Mingw-w64-public] how to invoke (install?) mingw64.

2009-04-23 Thread patrick flaherty
Hi, I successfully built the Sourceforge pyOpenSSL project with mingw32. But I'm on a 64-bit machine and have had problems with loading the project's DLLs at runtime (on a 32 bit machine loading the DLLs works fine) and when I found mingw-64 on sourceforge thought I'd give it a try and see i