Thanks for the reply. I had not realised that distutils does not support Mingw when compiling C++ I searched for "gxx_personality" in files (using find). It's in libstdc++.a and libsubc++.a which are in the directory C:\MinGW\bin As soon as I've got time I'll have another go, but linking to these files. Andrew Gregory.

-----Original Message----- From: David Abrahams [mailto:dave@boost-consulting.com] Sent: 11 December 2002 21:50 To: M.-A. Lemburg Cc: Andrew Gregory; 'distutils-sig@python.org' Subject: Re: [Distutils] Compiling Python C++ extensions with MingW

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ap.cxx: undefined reference to `__gxx_personalit y_v0' dllwrap: gcc exited with status 1 error: command 'dllwrap' failed with exit status 1

Looks like some lib is missing. Hard to tell which without a working MinGW installed :-) That's not just "some lib", but a part of the C++ runtime. It may be as simple as setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the location of the C++ runtimes shipped with mingw when linking.

Patches are welcome. AFAIK, nobody is supporting MinGW for distutils, so you're on your own here.

Could be that g++ needs to be used instead of gcc for compiling C++ code...

Yes, that is definitely the case.

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at least that's what the CVS log suggests. The MinGW class has gcc hard-coded...

Easy fix, then!

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