> Actually, if you want to build using mingw, you
need to install pymingw on
> top of python and, of course, use the dll and the libs procvided by
pymingw
> instead of the standard python ones. I've wasted hours on this problem
...
> twice (3 months ago and 3 years ago) !!
>
> http://jove.prohosting.com/iwave/ipython/pyMinGW.html#download
>
> MaX. >
>
> Not sure I would discount doing this so easily. I have built pymingw
> here but I know someone who did what Michael did (Use the
> distributed binaries from python.org and was able to use Sqlite, and
> the Python interfaces okay. Now I will admit that compiling and
> linking working is not the same as having the executable function
> the way it should. But MingW (On other projects) that I have worked
> on has worked well linking against libs and dll’s that were compiled
> against MSVC.
>
> Would be interesting to know if Michael’s python command line works
> properly. That would be the litmus test.
I didn;t build pymingw, I used a precompiled one,
I'm a lazy man.
On the other hand, i thnk that without pymingw, the
command line python thing was not working.