R: [gdal-dev] GDAL & Python

[Christopher Barker]

Marco Pasetti wrote:
> Python setup.py -c mingw32 build
> Python -c mingw32 setup.py build
> Python "-c mingw32" setup.py build
> 
> And so on.... But nothing!

SOMETHING must have happened? what errors, etc did you get? (that first 
one should be the right one.

Here is a page about building Python extensions on windows with Mingw:

http://boodebr.org/main/python/build-windows-extensions

In there, he suggests:

You now have to tell Python to use the Cygwin/MinGW compiler when 
building extensions. To do this, create a file:

  c:\py25\lib\distutils\distutils.cfg:

in it, put:

[build]
compiler = mingw32

Then setup.py build should default to using mingw32

> I'll build GDAL without python bindings... I have no such time to compile
> also python with MinGW!

Being a python fan, I'd like to help with that, but I can't seem to get 
GDAL to build at all with mingw and msys. How did you do that? If I can 
get GDAL to build, I'll figure out how to get the python extensions to 
build.

-Chris


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