[Python-Dev] Unable to build regex module against Python 3.5 32-bit (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed May 27 08:39:58 CEST 2015

On 27 May 2015 at 03:02, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

When I tried:

C:\MinGW64\bin\dlltool.exe or: C:\MinGW64\x8664-w64-mingw32\bin\dlltool.exe for the 32-bit builds, they wouldn't link.

Was that with "-m i386"? If so, then I suspect that's the issue. Steve, did you use 64-bit mingw to build the .a files? Assuming so, I guess we either stop shipping libpythonXY.a, or the instructions for building the Windows release need to clearly state that you want a 32-bit mingw on PATH for the 32-bit builds, and a 64-bit mingw on PATH for the 64-bit builds (which sounds messy and error-prone :-()

I'd be inclined to call this a mingw bug. However, I don't have the first clue where to report it.

Paul

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