How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?

[Giovanni Bajo]

On 22/03/2007 15.34, John Pye wrote:

> I downloaded your package and installed it in c:/mingw1. It complained
> that it could not detect Python, although I have Python 2.4 installed
> on my system (did you check HKCU as well as HKLM, perhaps?)

Ewwww you're totally right! I'll have that fixed!

> I note that the gccmrt utility does not work from MSYS. You will need
> to provide a shell-script equivalent version, in order for that to be
> useful for MSYS users. So I opened a cmd prompt and ran the command,
> then restarted my MSYS session. 

Yes, I don't use MSYS. I'll attempt something... any idea how to ship both 
versions and still having the right one picked up depending on which shell 
you're using? Maybe it's just a matter of extensions?

 > There is also a need to be able to
> query the *current state* of the gccmrt option.

Right, I'll add that.

> Next I built my code. It all compiled OK, all the way through to my
> NSIS bundle. So that was nice. It includes gfortran, flex, bison, SWIG/
> Python and Tcl/Tk linkage: a bit of a coup.
> 
> BUT when I try to run my program, I get a windows error msgbox,
> "python.exe - Entry Point Not Found: The procedure entry point _ctype
> could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcr71.dll".

In msvcrt71.dll, there is no _ctype (see declaration at line 111 of 
include\ctype.h). There is only _pctype. What if you comment the declaration 
at line 111? I wonder what it's bringing in _ctype.

Anyway, it looks like mingw-runtime does not support this _ctype change 
between mscvrt.dll and msvcr71.dll. These changes should probably be 
represented in the forms of #ifs checking __MSVCRT_VERSION__. I'm not even 
sure that __MSVCRT_VERSION__ is being set correctly.. that is something gccmrt 
should eventually take care of, but for this specific _ctype problem you 
probably need to submit a patch to mingw-runtime.

I can guide you through it though... I don't have much time in these days though.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo