[pylucene-dev] Windows Python 2.5 binaries?

[Steven Bethard]

On 10/11/06, Andi Vajda <vajda at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> My 'Windows' section in PyLucene's Makefile looks like this:
>
> # Windows (with gcj 3.4.6 and libs statically linked)
> PREFIX_PYTHON=/cygdrive/o/Python-2.4.3/PCbuild
> GCJ_HOME=/cygdrive/o/mingw-5.0-3.4.6
> GCJ_LIBDIR=$(GCJ_HOME)/lib
> GCJ_STATIC=1
> LIB_INSTALL=
> #DB=/cygdrive/o/db-$(DB_VER)
> #PREFIX_DB=$(DB)
> #ANT=ant
> PYTHON=$(PREFIX_PYTHON)/python.exe
>
> If the build process doesn't pick up from the .jar -> .o compiling phase, I'd
> check that the files are there and that their dates are correct with regards
> to the make rules that work with them.

Running make -d with a Makefile that looks pretty much like the one
above, I see that:

Prerequisite `lucene-java-2.0.0-453447' is newer than target
`lucene-java-2.0.0-453447/build/lucene-core-2.0.0-453447.jar'.

Looks like it expects the directories to have the same dates, but when
I extract the files (either with 7-zip or GnuWin32 tar/gzip) I get
folders with newer modification dates than all the jar files.  I ran
the following script to ``touch`` everything:

    import os
    import subprocess
    for base_path, file_names, dir_names in os.walk('.'):
        for name in file_names + dir_names:
            path = os.path.join(base_path, name)
            subprocess.call(['touch', path])

and got a little farther.  I got some errors due to the space in
"Program Files" in my PREFIX_PYTHON, so I replaced that with
"PROGRA~1", and I got some other errors because I unzipped and tried
to compile PyLucene from within a directory that had a space in it.
After moving everything to a spaceless directory and running make
again, I now get the error:

/cygdrive/d/MinGW/bin/g++ -shared -o release/_PyLucene.pyd ...
`cygpath -aw /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/Python/python25.dll` -L`cygpath -aw
/cygdrive/d/MinGW/lib` -lgcj -liconv  -lwin32k -lws2_32
g++.exe: c:\PROGRA~1\Python\python25.dll: No such file or directory

I used the MSI installer from python.org when I installed Python2.5
and as far as I could tell, it doesn't seem to install a python25.dll.
 Where should that be coming from?  (There is a python25.lib in
C:\PROGRA~1\Python\libs for what it's worth.)

Steve
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