Black Dew added the comment:
It seems that the system I was testing on had the ActiveState python
distribution installed which does not include libpython26.a
I tried installing the official one from python.org and it has
libpython26.a and works fine.
Sorry about opening the bug at the wrong pl
Martin v. Löwis added the comment:
What's wrong with using the libpython26.a that is included in the
Windows distribution?
I don't think anecdotal observations should be included in the
documentation; an expert would have to confirm first what the right
procedure is.
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nosy: +loewis
Black Dew added the comment:
It seems this was writen to the docs after a discussion here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-October/057717.html
>> As it turns out, MinGW also implemented, in version 3.0.0 (with
>> binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1), features which make the creation o
