Re: [boost] [1.35.0] Developer preparation

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-17 15:07:42

on Wed Oct 17 2007, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Did you read
http://boost.org/libs/python/doc/building.html#notes-for-mingw-and-cygwin-with-mno-cygwin-gcc-users
and is it relevant to you?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com