Jason Tishler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I don't think the patch, cygwin-smaller.diff, is correct. The value of static_lib_extension needs to remain ".a". Otherwise, shared extensions attempting to build against a library that only offers a static version will fail to link.
AFAICT, Cygwin needs a concept that is not currently supported by distutils -- the ability to specify a shared library *link* extension (i.e., ".dll.a") which is different from the shared library extension (i.e., ".dll"). On Unix they are the same (e.g., ".so"), but on Cygwin they are different because of how Windows handles DLLs -- import library versus DLL. ---------- nosy: +jlt63 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2445> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
