> 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.
1a. [Optional] Install MSYS, also from [1]. If your extension relies on another C library, this may make it easier to compile that library. > > 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 I believe steps 2 through 4 are only required for Python 2.3 or earlier. I have not needed to do those steps for Python 2.4 and 2.5. > > 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
