On 2015-05-26 14:24, Paul Moore wrote: > On 26 May 2015 at 13:55, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote: > > The builds I am responsible for include it because someone reported an issue > > and was persistent and helpful enough that I fixed it for them. > > > > That said, until MinGW agrees on a stable branch/version/fork, there seems > > to be a good chance that the shipped lib won't work for some people. If this > > is what's happened here, I see it as a good enough reason to stop shipping > > the lib and to add instructions on generating it instead (the gendef/dlltool > > dance). > > Agreed. If shipping it helps, then great. If it's going to cause bug > reports, let's go back to the status quo of not having it. The > instructions for generating it were in the old distutils docs, now > removed in the cleanup / redirection to packaging.python.org. I'm > inclined to just leave it undocumented - the people who need it know > how to do it or can find it, whereas documenting the process implies a > level of support that we're not yet really able to provide. > > Let's wait to see what the OP comes back with before making a final > decision. I see a few questions: > > 1. Does using distutils work (as opposed to the quoted manual compile steps)? > 2. Does using whatever process he used in the past to generate > libpythonXY.a result in a working version? > > https://docs.python.org/2.7/install/index.html#gnu-c-cygwin-mingw > suggests using pexports rather than gendef. I don't know if that could > produce a different result, but I can't see how... It also implicitly > assumes you're using dlltool from the toolchain you'll be building > with rather than using -m. Again, I can't see why that would affect > the results. > It's been so long since the last Python release that I didn't remember that I had to make the lib file. I made libpython35.a like I did for the others and it's all working now. All the tests pass. :-)
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