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

[Bill Janssen]

> If pylucene can be compiled with MSVC7 that'd be great since I'm
> getting bored to alter my mingw installation to link with msvcrt71
> each time I need to compile a python extension :D

For some reason, my MinGW/MSYS installation seems to do this
automatically.  And, yes, I am using the standard MSVC-compiled
Python.  I do specify the --compiler=mingw32 flag when I compile
the Python extension via setup.py.

Bill