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

[Andi Vajda]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Bill Janssen wrote:

>>    - on Windows:
>>       . install a setuptools >= 0.6c7
>>       . manually copy the jcc.lib import library into the JCC egg directory
>
> The fact that you have to manually copy the .lib file really seems
> like a bug to me.  The install step should do that automatically if
> it's generated.  A distutils bug or a setuptools bug?

A setuptools bug. Distutils doesn't do shared libraries.

Andi..