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

[Bill Janssen]

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

Actually, the flag is "--compiler", not "--ccompiler".

> 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.

Well, something's sticky.  I just compiled JCC with it,

  python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32

then installed JCC

  python setup.py install

then cd .. up to Lucene proper, and add yet another section to the Makefile:

 # Windows   (Win32, MinG+MSYS, Python 2.4.3, Java 1.6, ant 1.7.0)
 PREFIX_PYTHON=c:/Python24
 ANT=JAVA_HOME="/c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_04" "/c/Program Files/apache-ant-1.7.0/bin/ant"
 PYTHON=$(PREFIX_PYTHON)/python.exe
 JCC=$(PYTHON) $(PREFIX_PYTHON)/Lib/site-packages/JCC-1.8-py2.4-win32.egg/jcc/__init__.py
 NUM_FILES=1

and do "make".  It compiles and links PyLucene correctly, using MinGW
executables and flags.

It appears to inherit the appropriate MinGW stuff from JCC.

Bill