[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 10:25:01 CEST 2015

On 27 May 2015 at 09:10, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

The old distutils docs aren't gone, the top level links just moved to the distutils package docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/distutils.html

I kept them (with the same deep link URLs) because I know there's stuff in there that isn't currently documented anywhere else. I moved them to a more obscure location because there's also stuff in there that's thoroughly outdated, and it's a non-trivial task to figure out which is which and move the still useful stuff to a more appropriate home :)

Thanks.

Your plan worked perfectly, because I never knew they were there :-)

https://docs.python.org/3/install/index.html#older-versions-of-python-and-mingw implies that the libpythonXY.a files are only needed in older versions of Python/mingw. I don't know how true that is, although I do know that mingw should be able to link directly to a DLL without needing a lib file.

It would be interesting to know if MRAB's build process can use the DLL, rather than requiring a lib file (or for that matter if distutils works without the lib file!) Paul

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