[pylucene-dev] Re: building JCC on Windows with MinGW

[Bill Janssen]

> > I've decided to get myself into more trouble by attempting to build
> > JCC on Windows XP with MinGW (gcc 3.4.5, I believe).
> 
> Why not use the MSVC compiler ?
> There even is a free (as in $) one.

I'm not religious about it; I just don't know how to download it,
install it, or use it from the command-line.  I had to install MinGW
anyway to use configure & make with the UpLib sources, so it's the
hammer already in my hand :-).

Bill