Issues compiling hunspell from source on windows

[David Robinow]

It appears you are using a 32 bit compiler with a 64-bit python.
Install a 32 bit python.

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Akshay Kayastha <akshay.ksth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi I am trying to compile a python module called hunspell from the following [source](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hunspell).
>
> But I get the following error message.
>
>         C:\Users\KURO\Desktop\hunspell-0.1>setup.py install
>         running install
>         running build
>         running build_ext
>         building 'hunspell' extension
>         C:\mingw\bin\gcc.exe -mno-cygwin -mdll -O -Wall -D_LINUX -I/usr/include/hunspell
>          -IC:\Python27\include -IC:\Python27\PC -c hunspell.c -o build\temp.win-amd64-2.
>         7\Release\hunspell.o -Wall
>         writing build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\hunspell.def
>         C:\mingw\bin\gcc.exe -mno-cygwin -shared -s build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\hun
>         spell.o build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\hunspell.def -LC:\Python27\libs -LC:\Py
>         thon27\PCbuild\amd64 -lhunspell-1.2 -lpython27 -lmsvcr90 -o build\lib.win-amd64-
>         2.7\hunspell.pyd
>         c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.3.3/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot fin
>         d -lhunspell-1.2
>         collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>         error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
>
> I tried downloading libhunspell-1.2-0.dll and put it into my system. But I still get the same error message. How do I deal with this? I have Windows 7 and [mingw](http://www.develer.com/oss/GccWinBinaries)
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