[pylucene-dev] building JCC on Windows with MinGW

[Bill Janssen]

> I haven't tried this but it seems to be missing stuff on the Path.

Works fine here, though.  I haven't tried it with the --shared yet.

> I guess, I should rewrite this to attempt loading jvm.dll and only play the 
> Path trick if that call fails.

Ah, good idea.  I wasn't sure if you could "load jvm.dll" from Python
without the WinPython extensions.

> Also, this trick has to be made optional to not be in 
> the way of more exotic setups such as people with multiple installs of 
> various JREs, etc, etc...

I thought I was getting the "default" JRE, though.  I've got 4
different JREs installed on my Windows machine (all versions of Java 6).

Bill