Re: [sword-devel] Best Windows compiler to use to make Python bindings to Sword?

2014-02-25 Thread Jonathan Morgan
Hi Timothy, I haven't built SWORD for a few years, and don't 100% remember how to build it. However, in answer to your questions, I did use Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition to build for Windows as it was always going to match best with the standard Windows Python 2.6/2.7 build. I think I used a

Re: [sword-devel] Best Windows compiler to use to make Python bindings to Sword?

2014-02-25 Thread rj_qgsous_sword
Thank you for your helpful answers. I had been attempting to use CMake to build a Visual Studio 2008 project and make the SWIG bindings. Now I understand why that didn't work. Also, I now have some more questions: @Jon You mentioned that you used the Visual Studio

Re: [sword-devel] Best Windows compiler to use to make Python bindings to Sword?

2014-02-25 Thread Jonathan Morgan
Hi Timothy, On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:24 AM, rj_qgsous_sword rj_qgsous_sw...@objectmail.com wrote: Thank you for your helpful answers. I had been attempting to use CMake to build a Visual Studio 2008 project and make the SWIG bindings. Now I understand why that didn't work. Also, I now

[sword-devel] Best Windows compiler to use to make Python bindings to Sword?

2014-02-24 Thread rj_qgsous_sword
I would like to make Python bindings to Sword. From reading the documentation that comes with Sword, I see that I need to build the entire Sword library in order to do this. What would be the recommended compiler to use? I am running Windows 8.1. I don't have any

Re: [sword-devel] Best Windows compiler to use to make Python bindings to Sword?

2014-02-24 Thread Greg Hellings
While it is possible to mix-and-match DLLs from Visual Studio with those from MinGW or those from other compilers, it is not recommended as it requires special work during the compiling and linking phase. It's rather difficult. Thus, it would be easiest on you to build the bindings with the same

Re: [sword-devel] Best Windows compiler to use to make Python bindings to Sword?

2014-02-24 Thread Peter von Kaehne
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 22:00 -0600, Greg Hellings wrote: That said, I have no idea if Swig is compatible with Visual Studio, nor if there is a version available for running on Windows, nor if it would produce a DLL that would link happily on Windows against Python, nor how to install a