[Python-Dev] progress: compiling python2.5 under msys (specifically but not exclusively under wine) with msvcr80 (original) (raw)

Cesare Di Mauro cesare.dimauro at a-tono.com
Wed Jan 21 21:48:55 CET 2009

Have you made some benchmarks like pystone?

Cheers, Cesare

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 08:50PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

this is a progress report on compiling python using entirely free software tools, no proprietary compilers or operating systems involved, yet still linking and successfully running with msvcr80 assemblies. manifests and rc files, which are compiled to internal resources, have been added. various sections which are uniquely identifed by MSCVER >= 1400 etc have had to be enabled with corresponding MSVCRTVERSION >= 0x0800 - in particular, signal handling (PyOSgetsig()).

currently, under wine with msvcr80, there looks like there is a bug with a common theme related to threads, but here's a short list: testarray.py is blocking, testbz2.py is hanging and testcmdline.py causes a segfault; testctypes is still a bundle of fun. for those people who use native win32 platforms who are compiling up this code, you should have better luck. significantly, the wine developers have been absolutely fantastic, and have fixed several bugs in wine, sometimes within hours, that were found as a result of running the extremely comprehensive python regression tests. the python regression tests are a credit to the collaborative incremental improvement process of free software development. i look forward to seeing the same incremental improvement applied to the development of python, evidence of which would be clearly seen by the acceptance of one of the following patches, one of which is dated 2003: http://bugs.python.org/issue3754 http://bugs.python.org/issue841454 http://bugs.python.org/issue3871 http://bugs.python.org/issue4954 http://bugs.python.org/issue5010 for those people wishing to track and contribute to the development of python for win32 using entirely free software tools, either under wine or native windows, there is a git repository, here, slightly illogically named pythonwine because that's where i started from (cross-compiling python under wine, so i could get at the wine registry from python). obviously, since then, things have... moved on :) http://github.com/lkcl/pythonwine/tree/python2.5.2wine l.

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