Kevin D. Smith wrote: > I've written a simple Python extension for UNIX, but I need to get it > working on Windows now. I'm having some difficulties figuring out how > to do this. I've seen web pages that say that MS Visual Studio is > required, and other that say that's not true, that MinGW will work. > Then there is Mike Fletcher's web page > (http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/) that describes in > detail how to build extensions, but most of the links to external > software are no longer valid. I think it's safe to say that I am > completely lost, as there appears to be no authoritative, up-to-date > description on how to make this work.
There is an easy way to build Python extensions on Windows with MinGW and it works fine for me. Just follow these steps: 1. Get MinGW gcc and/or g++, preferably via MinGW installer from [1]. You may have to restart your computer or manually edit PATH system environment variable to include MinGW's bin directory (default is c:\mingw\bin). Then check if it is there by typing `path` in the cmd window. 2. Get pexports-0.42h.zip from [2] and extract pexports.exe file 3. Prepare MinGW compatible .a library file pexports.exe c:\WINDOWS\system32\python24.dll > python24.def c:\mingw\bin\dlltool.exe --dllname python24.dll --def python24.def --output-lib libpython24.a 4. Place the new libpython24.a file in the Python's libs directory (but not in the Lib dir), default is c:\python24\libs 5. Build your extension by executing your setup script with `--compiler=mingw32` parameter. python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 Additionally you may wish to put a distutils.cfg file in the c:\python\lib\distutils dir containing following entries: [build] compiler = mingw32 This will tell the distutils script to use MinGW compiler by default when executing `python setup.py build` command. best, fw [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ [2] http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/mingw32/pexports-0.42h.zip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
