MingW question

[Gerhard Häring]

Thomas Heller wrote:
 > I've failed miserably to create a line-coverage report with MSVC6 for 
 > my extension module under Windows.
 >
 > On the web I've found docs for GCC's gcov utility, and I was surprised
 > how easy it was to create this info under Linux with gcc (which
 > probably shows that I don't really know much about Linux ;-).
 >
 > From reading this list, I have the impression that it's simple (at
 > least possible) to compile extensions with MingW for standard (MSVC
 > compiled) Python.

It is. All you need is 
http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/non-ms-compilers.html

and from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435

install MinGW-2.0.0-3.exe.

 > Is the gcov utility also available for MingW?

gerhard at MEPHISTO ~
$ ls /c/MinGW/bin/gcov.exe
/c/MinGW/bin/gcov.exe

Looks like it :-)

 > Am I right that MingW runs
 > under standard Windows (XP Pro in this case) without needing Cygwin?

Yep. I've never used gcov und mingw, though. Also, debugging extension 
modules is relatively hard under Windows using mingw.

-- Gerhard