[Bug-gnubg] Windows builds with mingw/Sqlite/Python252

[Michael Petch]

After helping Michael Parsons he had a few comments about what he had to do
to get everything linked properly. Below are his comments that may be of use
to others. 

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For future reference, your instructions as to what to do after installing
python25 were not quite right, but I was able to improvise.  It is not the
dll that the make is looking for, but libpython25.a, which is in the
/python25/libs directory.  Then, in addition, it wants libsqlite3.a.  Both
of these archives need to be placed in /gnu/mingw/lib.  Now, libsqlite3.a is
NOT in /python25/libs, but _sqlite3.lib is.  So, I executed the following
command:

cp -m /python25/libs/_sqlite3.lib /gnu/mingw/lib/libsqlite3.a

and after that, the linker was happy.  Would have never gotten here without
your help.

Thanks a bunch, and now I have to familiarize myself with what gnubg can do.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Petch [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7:44 PM
To: Michael Parkinson; Christian Anthon
Subject: Re: python25


On 4/16/08 5:15 PM, "Michael Parkinson" <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Never a dull moment.
> 

Never is - welcome to open source :). As for python I recommend downloading
python252 from the python site (in particular:
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.2/python-2.5.2.msi )

Once you install that look through your system (search) for python25.dll .
Liekly it will be in your windows\system32 directory. Copy th dll into the
directory where you build GnuBG from, recompile and see what happens.

Michael