[Python-Dev] Status of mingw and Python 2.6 ? (original) (raw)

Jim Kleckner jek-gmane at kleckner.net
Sat Jul 26 03:22:24 CEST 2008

I gave it a try with cygwin-hosted mingw just to see if that would work as an alternative to VS2008/VC9 to figure out some linkage problems.

I tried: python setup.py build_ext --compiler mingw32

and got a version string issue noted below which rejects the version string printed from the loader ld as an inappropriate form.

I seem to recall that mingw was expected to work with 2.6. Is it?

Thanks - Jim

running build_ext Traceback (most recent call last): File "finsim/setup.py", line 96, in package_dir = {'finsim': 'finsim'}, File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup dist.run_commands() File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 992, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 309, in run force=self.force) File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\ccompiler.py", line 1175, in new_compiler return klass (None, dry_run, force) File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 306, in init CygwinCCompiler.init (self, verbose, dry_run, force) File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 107, in init get_versions() File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 430, in get_versions ld_version = StrictVersion(result.group(1)) File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\version.py", line 40, in init self.parse(vstring) File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\version.py", line 107, in parse raise ValueError, "invalid version number '%s'" % vstring ValueError: invalid version number '2.18.50.20080523'

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