[pylucene-dev] building JCC on Windows with MinGW

[Dirk Rothe]

>> So, we need to figure out how to do this for Windows Python.  We really  
>> want Python (rather, the JCC __init__.py file) to look in the Windows  
>> registry and do the right thing with what it finds there (basically,  
>> adding the right location for the jvm.dll to sys.path), before it  
>> attempts to import either "jcc" or "_jcc".
>
> It's not sys.path (that's where PYTHONPATH ends up), it's the env's PATH  
> or, more precisely, the process's executable search path that needs to  
> be updated. I don't know of a linker way to do this on Windows. Once the  
> process has started, my understanding is that it's too late already.
>
> In Chandler, we have a starter process that starts python after setting  
> the proper search path.

We are setting up os.path in sitecustomize.py (in the embedded python  
installation) - pointing to the embedded JVM. So it seems to work  
in-process as well. Tested under WinXP/Win2003 Server/Vista.

--dirk