On 06/15/2010 02:03 PM, James Ravenscroft wrote: > Dear All, > > Before I start, I'm aware of how much of a nightmare MSys and MINGW are > in comparison to UNIX/Linux environments, I'm a casual Ubuntu user > myself and I wouldn't go near Windows if I didn't have to. > > I'm trying to install the Python LibXML2 extensions onto my 64 bit > Cython 2.6 setup under Windows 7. When I do a "python setup.py build -c > mingw32", everything starts off fine and the compilation begins. > Distutils then returns complaining that most of the Python symbols (e.g. > _imp_Py_NoneStruct and _imp_PyArg_ParseTuple) are undefined. This lead > me to assume that the linker on my platform can't find a python library > to link against. Sure enough, I looked through my build path and > couldn't find libpython26.dll or libpython26.a anywhere. I managed to > get hold of a libpython26 shared library file (I think I found it in my > System32 folder) and copied it to C:\Python26\libs which is one of the > directories on my gcc search path. However, I'm still getting the same > rubbish about not all the python symbols being undefined.
My guess would be that you're compiling for the wrong architecture. Does your mingw compiler produce 64-bit binaries? (the "32" in "mingw32" would suggest otherwise) Debian GNU/Linux has mingw-w64 package, I'd expect there to be a native analogue on windows. Thomas > > Has anyone had any prior experience with this sort of problem or can > anyone point me in the right direction? The only solution I could come > up with was to compile python itself from scratch which, even on a high > end desktop, takes hours and hours and hours... (etc) on an Msys setup. > > Thanks, > > James Ravenscroft > Funky Monkey Software > james (at) funkymonkeysoftware (dot) com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
