On 26 June 2000, Thomas Heller said:
but this is of course nonsense. Swig is used to build python-extensions, not exe-files. Sorry for that.
Yeah, but I'd still like to know if 'link_executable()' works on Windows! I think it'd be really cool if part of building Distutils on Windows was (optionally!) to compile your wininst stub, all using the Distutils compiler interface... (Yeah, I know, the Distutils shouldn't require a compiler or anything funky. Still...)
Appended is a patch for your swig patches (;-) which adds an --swig-cpp command line option to build_ext, so that I can build the win32 stuff again. There should probably better be an option for the Extension() class, but (hopefully) someone else can do this. This is in chunks 1, 2, 4, 5.
OK, the SWIG stuff is fine -- checked it in.
Chunks 3 and 6 contain a change for building extensions on NT: MSVC generates .lib and .exp files when building shared libraries. The .exp files are usually unneeded, the .lib files are import libraries, which may be needed for (other) dlls linking to the first one. Up to now these files were created in the build/lib.win32/Release or build/lib.win32/Debug directories. Sometimes python extensions are dependend on each other. One example is the ODBC stuff included in Marks code: The odbc extension links dynamically to the dbi extension. So I changed build_ext to create the .lib (and .exp) files in the build/lib.win32 directory. Since they have different names for debug and release builds, no conficts occur: dbi.lib, dbi_d.lib.
OK, that's in too, although it took a while to sink in through my thick skull -- so the checkin messages are a bit confused. Hey, waitasec: you're referring to "build/lib.win32/Release" -- but the code in front me of says self.implib_dir = self.build_temp which to me eyes (scanning build_ext.py and build.py) resolves to "build/temp.win32", hence the Debug and Release directories are under build/temp.win32, not build/lib.win32. What's going on here? I'm confused... can someone explain my code to me? ;-) (Well, let's face it, the Windows stuff in build_ext.py really isn't my code...) Greg -- Greg Ward - Linux weenie gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters.