[issue37351] Drop libpython38.a from Windows release

Olivier Croquette added the comment: I don't know what version of gendef is meant, but the one from MSYS2 / MinGW64 doesn't output the result on stdout, but rather writes the file "python38.def" itself. So the commands are the following: cd libs gendef ..\python38.dll dlltool --dllname

[issue37351] Drop libpython38.a from Windows release

Steve Dower added the comment: Fixing --compiler=mingw32 is left for another bug, if anyone is so motivated. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue37351] Drop libpython38.a from Windows release

Steve Dower added the comment: New changeset fa23bd286fb7719bd7601da0b713457589f5536f by Steve Dower in branch '3.8': bpo-37351: Removes libpython38.a from standard Windows distribution (GH-14276) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fa23bd286fb7719bd7601da0b713457589f5536f --

[issue37351] Drop libpython38.a from Windows release

Change by Steve Dower : -- pull_requests: +14122 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14298 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37351] Drop libpython38.a from Windows release

Steve Dower added the comment: New changeset f5690925df897cf45818bf944b28d13f37b9f8ca by Steve Dower in branch 'master': bpo-37351: Removes libpython38.a from standard Windows distribution (#14276) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f5690925df897cf45818bf944b28d13f37b9f8ca --

[issue37351] Drop libpython38.a from Windows release

Change by Steve Dower : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +14100 stage: needs patch -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14276 ___ Python tracker

[issue37351] Drop libpython38.a from Windows release

Steve Dower added the comment: Turns out that using distutils/setuptools with --compiler=mingw32 is just doomed to fail when it hits get_msvcr(), which has never been updated for Python 3.5 onwards. So I think it's probably safe to assume that this scenario isn't a real thing and people

[issue37351] Drop libpython38.a from Windows release

Steve Dower added the comment: Realising that this may have an impact on distutils.cygwincompiler.Mingw32CCompiler, but I can't tell from the source code how/whether it would pick up the pre-packaged libpython38.a. Does anyone know? -- components: +Distutils nosy: +dstufft,

[issue37351] Drop libpython38.a from Windows release

New submission from Steve Dower : The step of generating a MinGW import library for Python releases is very rarely used, forces us to take extra build dependencies, and is better handled by the end-users who need it. We will drop the libpython38.a file from the main distribution, and update