[egenix-users] Anyone successfully compiled mxTextTools beta5 with MingW32?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> The package does compile w/out problem for the _Cygwin port of Python_, 
> but what I'm trying to do is to compile it with the Mingw32 extensions 
> to GCC so that the resulting binaries can be used with the "regular" 
> ActiveState/PythonLabs distributions (compiled with VC++).

I'm pretty sure that he used CYGWIN all the way.

Why would you want to build using MinGW32 ? eGenix.com provides
the binaries you need as installers for Windows.

> I've asked Steve to confirm whether he's got the Mingw32 or the Cygwin 
> version working, but given my tests here, I'm assuming he was working on 
> the pure-Cygwin version, not the Mingw32 version (or that I'm missing 
> something about something :) ).
> 
> Oh, it's the latest beta-5, no alterations, just unzipping and running 
> setup.py
> 
> Have fun all,
> Mike
> 
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>> Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
>>
>>> I've been poking at this problem for a while now, basically, my 
>>> attempts always fail with this error:
>>>
>>> c:\bin\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe -mno-cygwin -mdll -static -s 
>>
> ...
> 
>>> undefined reference to `_imp__mxTagTable_Type'
>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
>>
> ...
> 
>> Is this the latest beta you are testing here ?
>>
>> http://lists.egenix.com/mailman-archives/egenix-users/2002-August/000078.html 
>>
>>
>> It should be compatible to CYGWIN since Steve Holden has done a lot
>> of testing on that platform.
>>
>>> Now, if I understand this problem correctly, the __declspec( 
>>> dllexport ) stuff that's defined in mxTextTools.h and mxh.h for 
>>> mxTagTable_Type is somehow making mxTagTable_Type wind up mangled as 
>>> if it were a dll-loaded function within mxte.c instead of a 
>>> locally-defined but exported one?  VC++ seems able to work about it, 
>>> but not MingW32.
>>>
>>> I'm not really a C/C++ guy, so I'm not sure what the _solution_ to 
>>> the problem would be.  All discussions I can find on the web about it 
>>> seem to assume it's such an obvious fix that there's no point 
>>> describing it :o/ .
>>>
>>> Any suggestions welcome,
>>> Mike
>>
> ...
> 
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