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

[Charles]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
>  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.

Hi Bill,

Have you checked that the resulting pyd is linked with msvcrt71.dll.
If not you can use dependency walker
(http://www.dependencywalker.com/). As far as I know, mingw defaults
to link with msvcrt.dll and to have it link with msvcrt71 we have to
change this file -> mingw\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\specs + creating a
liboldnames.a that link with msvcrt71.dll too. I used the instruction
from

http://pygame.seul.org/wiki/PreparingMinGW

Compiling python extensions with vc7 (python 2.4)

http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/ <- heavy download
though, windows sdk + .net sdk = 1.5G