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From: "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com>
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Subject: RE: EXTERNAL: Re: missing python-config and building python on Windows
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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:31:20 +0000
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> On 7/31/2012 11:49 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:=0D=0A> > On 1/08/2012 10:48 AM=
, Damon Register wrote:=0D=0A> >> 1=2E though I have looked in a few readme=
 files, I don't see instructions for=0D=0A> >>     installing what I have j=
ust built using MSVC=2E  Where can I find the=0D=0A> >>     instructions fo=
r installing after building with MSVC?=0D=0A> >=0D=0A> > There is no such p=
rocess=2E  In general, you can just run directly from the=0D=0A> built tree=
=2E=0D=0A> That is a bummer=2E  That makes me more curious about how the Wi=
ndows=0D=0A> installer was made and how all the pieces were gathered togeth=
er=2E=0D=0A> =0D=0A> > I'm afraid I don't know what python-config is=2E  It=
 appears it might be a=0D=0A> reflection of how Python=0D=0A> > was configu=
red and build on *nix systems - if that is the case then it is=0D=0A> expec=
ted that one does not=0D=0A> > exist for Windows (as it doesn't use the *ni=
x build chain)=2E=0D=0A> which means, I guess, that mingw is barely support=
ed if at all=2E=0D=0A> While it may be Windows, mingw/msys is a nice way to=
 build many=0D=0A> programs that are unix oriented=2E  I suppose that just =
for fun I=0D=0A> should try to build python on SuSE to see how it goes=2E=
=0D=0A> =0D=0A> >> 3=2E It seems that MSVC doesn't produce the =2Ea library=
 files needed for=0D=0A> >> linking=0D=0A> >>     into a mingw built progra=
m=2E  Do I have to do that fun trick to=0D=0A> >> create the=0D=0A> >>     =
=2Ea from the dll?=0D=0A> >=0D=0A> > I'm surprised MSVC *can* build =2Ea fi=
les for mingw - but AFAIK, even if MSVC=0D=0A> could do that, I believe=0D=
=0A> > Python makes no attempt to build with support for linking into mingw=
=0D=0A> programs=2E=0D=0A> I don't know that MSVC can do this=2E  The only =
process of which I am aware is a=0D=0A> two step process using pexports and=
 dlltool to generate the =2Ea file from a=0D=0A> dll=2E=0D=0A> One reason I=
 was using the python=2Eorg installer is that it already had the=0D=0A> pyt=
hon27=2Ea file=2E  Now I am even more curious about what was used to build=
=0D=0A> python=0D=0A> and create that installer=2E=0D=0A> =0D=0A> The pytho=
n=2Eorg installer provided all I needed for build most python dependent=0D=
=0A> apps with mingw until I ran into one that needed python-config=2E  I s=
uppose=0D=0A> that=0D=0A> if python-config does what I suspect it does (pro=
duce cflags and ldflags as=0D=0A> does pkg-config) then perhaps I could jus=
t fake it by replacing use of=0D=0A> python-config with what the cflags and=
 ldflags should be for where I have=0D=0A> python=2E=0D=0A=0D=0AI have no k=
nowledge about building Python but does this help? =0D=0Ahttp://wiki=2Epyth=
on=2Eorg/moin/Building%20Python%20with%20the%20free%20MS%20C%20Toolkit =0D=
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