Re: [Bug-gnubg] python on windows with mingw

[Christian Anthon]

I did a simple compile against the official python 2.6 and it crashed
during startup...

Christian.

2009/8/30 Massimiliano Maini <address@hidden>:
> If you are using python 2.5, search for pymingw: it contains a mingw python 
> dll
> and some other files. That's what I'm currenmty using for gnubg distribs.
>
> For pithon 2.6 (and probably 3.0) I thought the problem was solved.
>
> MaX.
>
> 2009/8/30 Øystein Johansen <address@hidden>:
>> Christian Anthon wrote:
>>> I can't seem to get python and gnubg to work with mingw. I have a
>>> vague recollection that is doesn't work out of the box, but can't seem
>>> to get it right. What should I do?
>>
>> It's because a Python as downloaded from python.org, is compiled and
>> linked with MSVC. There are some incompatible runtime libraries when you
>> build gnubg with mingw and python with msvc.
>>
>> The solution is to build Python with mingw, but then you suddenly have
>> two python installations on your computer...
>>
>> -Øystein
>>
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