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Mon Aug 17 17:14:09 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-August/091217.html

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Chris Withers wrote:
> Michael Foord wrote:
>> D'oh. For 2.5 I mean. It may be *possible* though - just as you *can*
>> build extensions for Python 2.5 on windows with mingw (with the
>> appropriate distutils configuration), but there are pitfalls with
>> doing this.
> 
> Yes, in my case I'm trying to compile guppy (for heapy, which is an
> amazing tool) but that blows up with mingw...
> 
> (But I'm also likely to want to do some python dev on windows, httplib
> download problems and all...)
> 
> Chris
> 

Guppy doesn't compile on Windows. Pretty much full-stop. It uses static
references to DLL functions, which on Windows is not allowed.

I've tried patching it to remove such things, and I finally got it to
compile, only to have it go "boom!" in actual use.

If you can get it to work, certainly post something so that I can cheer.

John
=:->

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