[Python-Dev] Mingw help

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 08:50:40 CEST 2015


On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:
> If you have an interest in linking to the Windows builds of Python 2.7 and
> 3.5+ using mingw, please visit http://bugs.python.org/issue24385
>
> Unless someone can provide me with the One True Way to generate a lib that
> will work for everyone, I'm going to replace the lib file with instructions
> on how to generate it with your own tools. I've done enough guessing and
> need someone who actually uses mingw to step up and help out.

I use MinGW with SCons to build RHVoice and Wesnoth. I haven't seen a problem
to use resulting .dll from ctypes, so as far as I know, if you're not
using SEH, the
resulting libraries should be compatible between MS tools and MinGW.

Is that what are you asking?
-- 
anatoly t.


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