Hello all. I have a fairly fundamental question that I have been googling like crazy, but I can only seem to find really outdated or unreliable info:
I am trying to build an extension module written in C++ on windows XP. I am trying to use only open-source tools, such as mingw. I'm using the Python 2.5 official, and it seems to compile my module just fine (I'm using the --compiler=mingw32). I can also import the module. The problem is, when I attempt to use it, I get a segfault. Now, I'm pretty sure this segfault is just a bug in my C++ code. So of course, I would like to debug this thing somehow. I tried using the mingw gdb giving it my python.exe to run, but obviously this python has no debug info, and wasn't even compiled with mingw. I was hoping it would still somehow debug my extension module right, but when I do a backtrace after it segfaults, I get nothing useful. I've tried compiling python from source, and my extension module, using MSVC8 (free express version), and I managed to get this to work. The thing is, I don't want to have to recompile every single python package I need (wxPython, SciPy, etc). So basically, I need some general advice for how to compile and debug extension modules on windows using only open-source tools. I am still amazed that MSVC7.1 was chosen for the official python release and not mingw, has anyone explained this? Thank you so much for your time, Chris Anderson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
