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

[Bill Janssen]

> >>> Yes, the jcc.dll now builds cleanly.
> >>
> >> Via setup.py or via your own caring hands ?
> >
> > setup.py, after I amended the list of platforms to build shared on to
> > include "win32".
> 
> Great, I'll check that in.

Well, it's only half the battle.  To make it usable, I still need to
generate a .LIB file, or a libjcc.a file containing the same things.
I see that the Python distribution has c:\Python24\libs\libpython24.a
and c:\Python24\libs\python24.lib.  I don't know which is actually
used when the "-lpython24" switch is passed to g++; I'm guessing it's
the libpython24.a file, and that I need to generate a similar libjcc.a
file in order to make the --shared build of PyLucene work.  MinGW
documentation seems to think that foo.lib and libfoo.a have the same
structure and content, it's just a difference in how you give them to
the linker.

Bill