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

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amauryfa at gmail.com
Sat Jul 26 09:19:32 CEST 2008

Jim Kleckner wrote:

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 buildext --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? [...] 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'

There are actually two problems with MinGW. Your issue is the same as See http://bugs.python.org/issue2234

But MinGW is also not completely compatible with the msvcr90.dll runtime: http://bugs.python.org/issue3308 For example, if the extension module contains standard date functions (using time_t), it won't load.

-- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc

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