Re: [boost] [1.35.0] Developer preparation

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-17 11:11:04

David Abrahams wrote:
> on Tue Oct 16 2007, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>> David Abrahams wrote:
>>>> * Tester misconfiguration issues, as in
>>>>   http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/output/RSI%20Kludge-boost-bin-v2-libs-python-test-exec-test-msvc-8-0-debug-threading-multi_release.html
>>> It's just that I disabled the python25.lib file to make 
>>> linking with mingw work with the python25.dll. Which should also work 
>>> with msvc, but I guess BB is not set up that way.
>> Go figure... MSVC does not do automatic linking when given a DLL file 
>> only :-( So it's not a BB issue.
> 
> You obviously understand way more about the problem than you've
> managed to communicate to me.  Could you please try to spell out what
> the problem is and which components you think are at fault?

Well I don't think I can blame anything for being wrong. The problem is 
that I have the ActiveState versions of Python installed. Those versions 
are compiled with MSVC. On the last release I did some changes to BB to 
get MSVC, Mingw, and Cygwin to all compile and link to Python correctly. 
Except for one aspect, MinGW can't use the python*.lib because it's an 
MSVC lib. But it can use the python*.dll directly just fine, since it 
directly read the exported symbols in the DLL. So to get MinGW to work I 
just disabled, by renaming to python*~~~.lib, the link library. Not sure 
if there's anything we can, or should, fix though.

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