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

[Bill Janssen]

> 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.

Generating these libraries is quite easy, but the mechanism is
dependent on which compiler (gcc or msc) you are using.  I don't know
how to check for the compiler to set the appropriate link flags.

Bill