[ python-Bugs-1028697 ] Problem linking on windows using mingw32 and C++

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Bugs item #1028697, was opened at 2004-09-15 17:28
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Category: Distutils
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Steve Menard (devilwolf)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Problem linking on windows using mingw32 and C++

Initial Comment:
When create a python extension in C++ and using ming32
to compile it, distutil will try to use 'cc' as the linker.

The problem is that the CCompiler.link() method will
substitude the linker it has found in linker_exe or
linker_so with the first part of compiler_cxx. (lines
175-176)

So adding the following line to Mingw32Compiler, near
line 296

compiler_cxx='g++ -mno-cygwin -O -Wall',

Fixes it for me. 

Quickly looking at the CygwinCompiler indicates it
would suffer from he same problem.

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Comment By: Dobes V (dobesv)
Date: 2007-05-22 19:30

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This is a duplicate of 832159.  See the comments in that one for a
workaround that doesn't require patching your distutils sources.

Note that for cygwin, you can set some environment variables to change the
compiler/linker.  This doesn't work in mingw32 due to a bug in distutils.

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Comment By: Steve Menard (devilwolf)
Date: 2004-09-18 17:54

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Indeed it does seem identical to
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470&func=detail&aid=877165

thanks.

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Comment By: David S. Rushby (woodsplitter)
Date: 2004-09-17 16:15

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Is this a duplicate of the following two bug reports?
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470&func=detail&aid=877165
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470&func=detail&aid=832159

The first of those two was closed with a notice that the
patch is in CVS; the second is still open.

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