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

[Andi Vajda]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Bill Janssen wrote:

>>>> 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.
>
> Apparently not.  Passing --ccompiler=mingw32 to setup.py seems to do
> the trick.  Another distutils 'gotcha'.

Hehe :)

Unless JCC knows to use that flag when it invokes distutils/setuptools, this 
trick is only going to work when building JCC itself. I guess, I could add 
yet another command line arg to JCC to pass this through, though.

Andi..