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

[Andi Vajda]

On Mar 20, 2008, at 12:58, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

>>> 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.

Unless python itself was compiled with mingw I don't see how this is  
possible from JCC alone.

Andi..

>
>
> Bill