Python extensions using MinGW and CXX

[Gerhard Häring]

Reinhard Nadrchal <reinhard at proceryon.at> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In the course of porting our software (currently running on linux and 
> irix) we faced some problems with python extension modules based on Paul 
> Dubois' CXX.
> 
> Our problem is, that pyds generated with the MinGW compiler/linker seems 
> to be incompatible with the Windows python interpreter.
> 
> If we naively link python20.dll to our extension,

Python 2.0 is antique. And still using it probably qualifies as naive :-P

> it compiles and links, 
> bot the python interpreter crashes on importing the module. If we on the 
> other hand create a export library with pexport and dlltool, we get a 
> lot of unresolved references. Is there a way to fix the problem (without 
> using distutils or VC++).

Using distutils likely solves your problem. Why can't you use it? If CXX does
what I think it does, i. e. create C++ source files, then you can just use
distutils to compile the *generated* files.

-- Gerhard