See this page: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2008/06/28/compiling-python-extensions-with-distutils-and-mingw/ it has helped me with something similar and tells how to make a mingw compatable libpython25.a; In newer mingw version I think it can figure out the exports (the .a) from the dll itself.
~Gerdus On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:58 PM, David Robinow<drobi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Tim Roberts<t...@probo.com> wrote: >> Jason Baker wrote: >>> Nope. I get linker errors saying it cant find a whole slew of symbols >>> from the Python library. I haven't been able to figure out any other >>> way to get it to work without replacing python25.lib with python25.dll >>> (from C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32). > ... >> I believe there are recipes on the web that describe this. On the >> whole, I would think it would be much easier to go download the >> appropriate free Visual Studio Express Edition that matches your Python >> version, and use that to build your extension. > I don't believe there is such a thing for his Python version. > Microsoft periodically pulls the older editions of their free compilers. > If possible, Jason should upgrade to Python 2.6 > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
