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

[Andi Vajda]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Bill Janssen wrote:

>>> 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 :-).

Yes, but if you use a Python that's built with MSVC, it's going to emit 
compile flags for MSVC.

Andi..