James C. Ahlstrom writes:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
I got the wish list below. Anyone care to comment on how close we are on fulfilling some or all of this?
- GNU CC for Win32 compatibility (compilation of python interpreter and
"Freeze" utility). I think MingWin32 (Mummint Khan) is a good alternative eviting the cygwin dll user.
I don't know what this means.
mingw32: 'minimalist gcc for win32'. it's gcc on win32 without trying to be unix. It links against crtdll, so for example it can generate small executables that run on any win32 platform. Also, an alternative to plunking down money ever year to keep up with MSVC++
I used to use mingw32 a lot, and it's even possible to set up egcs to cross-compile to it. At one point using egcs on linux I was able to build a stripped-down python.exe for win32...
http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/%7Ejanjaap/mingw32/
-Sam
Sam Rushing wrote:
mingw32: 'minimalist gcc for win32'. it's gcc on win32 without trying to be unix. It links against crtdll, so for example it can generate
OK, thanks. But I don't believe this is something that Python should pursue. Binaries are available for Windows and Visual C++ is widely available and has a professional debugger (etc.).
Jim Ahlstrom
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, James C. Ahlstrom wrote:
Sam Rushing wrote:
mingw32: 'minimalist gcc for win32'. it's gcc on win32 without trying to be unix. It links against crtdll, so for example it can generate
OK, thanks. But I don't believe this is something that Python should pursue. Binaries are available for Windows and Visual C++ is widely available and has a professional debugger (etc.).
If somebody is willing to submit patches, then I don't see a problem with it. There are quite a few people who are unable/unwilling to purchase VC++. People may also need to build their own Python rather than using the prebuilt binaries.
Cheers, -g
-- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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