[pylucene-dev] building JCC on Windows with MinGW

[Andi Vajda]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Bill Janssen wrote:

>>> Ah, good idea.  I wasn't sure if you could "load jvm.dll" from Python
>>> without the WinPython extensions.
>>
>> The problem with my earlier idea of rewriting this in C is that, in order to
>> invoke the C, I have to load it and for that the Path has to be correct
>> already.
>
> How about using ctypes to test whether the library is already on the
> PATH?  ctypes.LoadLibrary("jvm"), I believe.  2.5 only, but that's not
> really as much of an issue on Windows as it is on OS X.
>
> If it's not on the PATH, use my code to look in the registry and
> upgrade the PATH.

Yes, that's possible.

Andi..