EXTERNAL: Re: missing python-config and building python on Windows

[Prasad, Ramit]

> On 7/31/2012 11:49 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:
> > On 1/08/2012 10:48 AM, Damon Register wrote:
> >> 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.
> That is a bummer.  That makes me more curious about how the Windows
> installer was made and how all the pieces were gathered together.
> 
> > 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).
> which means, I guess, that mingw is barely supported if at all.
> While it may be Windows, mingw/msys is a nice way to build many
> programs that are unix oriented.  I suppose that just for fun I
> should try to build python on SuSE to see how it goes.
> 
> >> 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.
> I don't know that MSVC can do this.  The only process of which I am aware is a
> two step process using pexports and dlltool to generate the .a file from a
> dll.
> One reason I was using the python.org installer is that it already had the
> python27.a file.  Now I am even more curious about what was used to build
> python
> and create that installer.
> 
> The python.org installer provided all I needed for build most python dependent
> apps with mingw until I ran into one that needed python-config.  I suppose
> that
> if python-config does what I suspect it does (produce cflags and ldflags as
> does pkg-config) then perhaps I could just fake it by replacing use of
> python-config with what the cflags and ldflags should be for where I have
> python.

I have no knowledge about building Python but does this help? 
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Building%20Python%20with%20the%20free%20MS%20C%20Toolkit 

Ramit

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