On 2015-05-27 09:25, Paul Moore wrote: > 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 outdated, and it's a non-trivial task to figure out which is which and move 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!) > Steve Dower's post has prompted me to look again at building the regex module for Python 3.5, 32-bit and 64-bit, using just Mingw64 and linking against python32.dll. It works! Earlier versions of Python, however, including Python 2.7, still seem to want libpython??.a.
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