[pylucene-dev] building a PyLucene binary release for Windows

[Bill Janssen]

> > Sorry, I misread your message. It's the 'install' phase that fails.
> > Well, the error from distutils/setuptools seems to make sense, no ?
> > As far as I know, if you want to use mingw32, you have to build Python with 
> > it too. I could be wrong but that's what the error message says.
> 
> Yes, but it was working just fine last week.  The change is that I
> upgraded from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5, and that has triggered this
> problem.  Works fine with Python 2.4.  Great, I can pester Martin with
> this one.

Apparently an errant compiler check crept in with Python 2.5
distutils.  You can work around it with

  python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 install

or

  python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32
  python setup.py install --skip-build

Bill