Dulwich C extensions and stand-alone Windows installation of bzr

[Alexander Belchenko]

Martin Pool пишет:
> I hope we don't get into a "what is reasonable" debate, because there
> are a lot of things about Windows development that are not reasonable,
> and also not under our control.
> 
> I believe the technical facts are:
> 
>  * you can't use cygwin or mingw gcc to build extensions for a Python
> built with msvc

I don't think it's true. At least for Python 2.5 it was possible to 
build python c-extensions with mingw. I don't know about Python 2.6-2.7
though.

>  * all the python.org distributions are built with msvc (perhaps
> because there are some limitations of w32 gcc; at any rate we hit some
> in the past)
>  * you need a close match between the Python interpreter and the
> Python headers/etc used to build the dll
> 
> so
> 
>>  Normally, to make a DLL from them would be a 15-second job, even if I had to type the compilation/link command by hand.
> 
> might be true for DLLs in general, but as far as I know it's not true
> for Python extensions.
> 
> Martin
> 
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