[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: follow recent changes to distutils and packaging modules and platform tests without os major version ... (require python-py3k-20110825-CROSS.patch from #3754) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23035/python-py3k-20110825-MINGW.patch

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Éric Araujo added the comment: > ...py3k-20110520... For successive versions of the same patch, it’s best to remove the obsolete ones and add the new one, all with the same name. > with updates of integrated recently distutil2 Your patch touches distutils, which is not acceptable. Also, it co

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: ...py3k-20110520...: with updates of integrated recently distutil2 (require patch from #3754 with same time-stamp). -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22037/python-py3k-20110520-MINGW.patch ___ Python tracker

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Roumen Petrov added the comment: Follow up updated patch to #3754 -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21571/python-py3k-20110407-MINGW.patch ___ Python tracker ___

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Roumen Petrov added the comment: fixed test case failure for 32-bit time_t -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20538/python-2.7-20110126-MINGW.patch ___ Python tracker ___

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Luke, Please please! Don't make me say what I did not say. I just said "I disagree", without any bad word. This may have been a bit terse, but I don't consider the issue tracker as a place to express one's feelings; hey, other core developers could have

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: No it is win32 for the resulting binaries. Idea is following (issue3754) . Travial patch - move method get_platform global _get_platform and variable host_platform is initialized to its return value. Then replace all calls of sys.platform and get_platform() t

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton added the comment: perhaps, amaury, you might like to, instead of saying "i disagree", you might like instead to say something like this: "that sounds... interesting, and a little scary - creating an entirely new platform! are you absolutely sure it's necessary??

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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton added the comment: > I disagree; i would say that you're entitled to disagree, but i have to point out that unless you've actually been through the process of trying to port python to mingw32 you're not really in a position of ... how can i put this best... you'

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: > But different build system make new plaform! Maybe, but not a new "sys.platform". VC6 and VS9.0 don't share any project file for the compilation; but they both build a sys.platform=='win32'. Distutils has to use another way to make the difference and c

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: But different build system make new plaform ! Roumen -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: > this is, after all, a new platform! it starts off with > "sys.platform == 'mingw32'" I disagree; programs compiled with mingw32 run on Windows, and use the MSVC runtime. It's the same platform as the current win32 build. It's even possible to use ming

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton added the comment: > The current patch makes too many changes in core distutils functions; > it cannot be accepted in this form. I'm sure that most of the needed > changes can be made in a subclass of the present Mingw32CCompiler. that's what i did when creating t

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton added the comment: > I am not sure how we should do this, but here's my proposal > for distutils2 at least: > - make this new feature a standalone package that patches distutils > - release it for 2.x > - let's add your work in distutils2 as well, so it's back in th

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: > but the very very first thing that has to happen - before any of this > work is begun - is for the distutils freeze to be lifted, or for > someone to come up with a _sensible_ alternative solution. Tarek's approach looks right to me: mingw32 support in

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: I understand your frustration, but I can't lift the freeze because any change to distutils potentially break third party projects out there. We suffered from that in the past and we decided to proceed on a new version and freeze this one. Having this compiler re

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton added the comment: > I'm trying to read the patch. It contains many interesting things (and > others I have no opinon about), but it is very large, and makes it > difficult to comment or find why some change were made etc. amaury: unfortunately, the development on

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: We don't punish anyone here. We try to avoid breaking distutils because it's really easy to get broken and get people upset. (you ask me) This bug has been opened for years and no one commited it because it's very very hard to review. it involves many parts, man

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton added the comment: erik, i'm really sorry, but the freeze on distutils simply cannot be accepted: there really is no other way, as you can see from the previous walkthrough analysis, and is reinforced by the further analysis below. simply put: if the freeze on dis

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Éric Araujo added the comment: Let’s try again. The current situation is that building with mingw32 is not supported. Adding support for mingw32 is by definition a new feature. You seem to agree on that: “a NEW compiler and linker type - an ADDITIONAL compiler and linker type”. Second, di

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: I'm trying to read the patch. It contains many interesting things (and others I have no opinon about), but it is very large, and makes it difficult to comment or find why some change were made etc. I do believe that better supporting the mingw32 platfor

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: And the patch for py3k (future 3.2) . Note require python-py3k-20101112-CROSS.patch from issue 3754 to be applied first. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19589/python-py3k-20101112-MINGW.patch ___ Python tra

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Руслан Ижбулатов added the comment: A small correction to previous post: two new compiler-and-linker types, not one. First - MinGW toolset without MSys, working with normal Windows command interpreter, which can be invoked simply by calling "cmd" (or whatever we get from %ComSpec%). Obviously

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton added the comment: sorry to have to ask, but could we get some feedback please so that this issue may move forward? currently there is a conflict between what is required and what is stated as being "absolute law". let's imagine that it is reasonable to expect di

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton added the comment: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Éric Araujo wrote: > > Éric Araujo added the comment: > > FYI, distutils is frozen because even minor bug fixes have broken third-party > tools in the past, that’s why new features and bug fixes land in distutils

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: update patch still for 2.7 with - restored build of ctypes (broken after recent updates) - python build with ncurses library, test pass - python build with readline library, test pass -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18626/python-trunk-20100824-

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Руслан Ижбулатов added the comment: Uh, sorry about that. I've replaced the second diff with the correct one. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18437/py3k_mingwmsys_2_autogen.diff ___ Python tracker ___

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René Schümann added the comment: @LRN what program did u used to create the patch? And what to apply it? Just because i can't get Tortoise to apply the patch (An unknown line type was found in line 678 !) and MSYS's patch also does not work. -- ___

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Éric Araujo added the comment: See http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distutils2 -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list U

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Éric Araujo added the comment: FYI, distutils is frozen because even minor bug fixes have broken third-party tools in the past, that’s why new features and bug fixes land in distutils2. Only some bug fixes that are sure not to break things make their way into distutils. distutils2 will be rei

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Руслан Ижбулатов added the comment: New version of my patch. Addresses some issues i've found since the last one. Diff against a recent trunk is attached. Changes (relative to previous patch): Python/pythonrun.c: * Added a call to _set_abort_behavior(). That should fix http://bugs.python.org

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LRN added the comment: Here's an alternative patch that enables Python building with MinGW/MSys I've skimmed rpetrov's patch, and it seems that my patch is more about building Python than about distutils (i've patched distutils only as far as the compilation of Python itself (with the extensio

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Could someone with knowledge of the Python build systems please comment on this, thanks. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker

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Roumen Petrov added the comment: - require patch "...20100626-CROSS..." from issue3871; - setup.py don't ignore readline and ncurses for host platform : python tests with readline pass, ncurses (current development) is not usable yet; - follow restored build with python specific windows versi

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: Patches to this issue require first patch from issue 3754. The last patch here now is from 2010-05-16. This patch cannot be applied to trunk as it will fail after update for readline in setup.py. You could use trunk version before this readline update. Now I'

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René Schümann added the comment: Roumen thanks for this work, but will you upload a new version? Just because i can't get it to work, i can't even patch it^^ Maybe it's the SVN Client i use (Tortoise SVN) or that i don't know how to apply this patch :D It would be nice when you help me Kind r

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: Common to all platforms part of patches lets call it "build modules with system python" is moved to issue 3754. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17362/python-trunk-20100516-MINGW.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

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[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Roumen, I am moving all the new work in distutils into distutils2, and > distutils is going to be frozen. Last patch is uploaded as the previous patches didn't apply cleanly (as compiler_obj is restored to compiler and etc.) > Do you wan

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: Roumen, I am moving all the new work in distutils into distutils2, and distutils is going to be frozen. Do you want to work on this feature in distutils2 ? (which is distutils code base before I started to revert things) Let me know so I mark this issue under "

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: distutils from trunk is restored to state before 9 months ago -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16534/python-trunk-20100313-MINGW.patch ___ Python tracker __

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: updated patch to trunk: - apply cleanly - support builddir <> sourcedir - regression tests pass if run from any drive (windows hosts) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16364/python-trunk-20100225-MINGW.patch _

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Roumen Petrov added the comment: system python has to be at least revision 77704 (trunk) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15988/python-trunk-20100124-MINGW.patch ___ Python tracker

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[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: updated patch do not include Lib/distutils/... : - .../command/build_scripts.py, fixed in another non-related issue4524 ( distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3) - .../tests/test_build_ext.py, fixed by issues related to builddir <> srcdir. N

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

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[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: attached patch for trunk-20090204: - removed patch from issue4587 (not relevant for mingw) ; - improved static build now succeed (use --disable-shared). this is follow-up of issue4494 + ... (don't expect loadable modules to work on windows) ; - restore win32.S re

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

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[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton added the comment: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Roumen Petrov wrote: > > Roumen Petrov added the comment: > > The proposed patch for this issue include parts of other pending issues > - so its all is single file. If python team don't like idea for > "canonical h

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: The proposed patch for this issue include parts of other pending issues - so its all is single file. If python team don't like idea for "canonical host names" (part of issue 3754) this patch can be modified do not use host-triplet. Also some discussions in py-dev

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: maybe you can group all your patch into one single issue since they are related, and remove old patches, -- nosy: +tarek ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

Roumen Petrov added the comment: Does this supercede #3754? - no. The issue #3754 introduce macro AC_CANONICAL_HOST(add standardize "host triplets") + fixes for cross-compilation. Changes to configure script in this patch show how to use "host triplet" for mingw builds. ___

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