wiki: Windows

Windows support

Windows support is available; load tests have been done.

Right now, the Makefiles and setup.py should be able to deal with Version 5 call drivers and Prosody 1 as well as 6.4 call drivers and TiNG 2.

Compiling on Windows

setup.py should automatically pick up the right compiler when you have Developer Studio (whichever version that is current now).

Additional requirements

You need:

I use patch from  Cygwin.

MinGW

If you don't have Developer Studio, you can use  MinGW, which can also be installed via  Cygwin.

If you use MinGW, you need to tell distutils. This can be done on the commandline, as in: 

setup.py build_ext --compiler=mingw32

Or edit $PYTHON\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg to contain: 

[build]
compiler=mingw32

Historical MinGW note

This was a bit tricky to set up, because  MinGW compiled binaries link with msvcrt.dll, but python linked with msvcr71.dll.

This effectively mixed C runtimes, which is always dangerous (different implementations of malloc/free, different layout for a FILE*, etc). For pyAculab, mixing C runtimes fails very quickly (I tried).

There are a few workarounds published on the net. I followed the advice in the  pygame wiki and edited the gcc spec file to replace msvcrt.dll with msvcr71.dll and rebuilt libmoldname.a.

Last modified by lars on 01/02/09 15:18:36 (20 months ago)