[Python-Dev] Status of mingw and Python 2.6 ?

Sat Jul 26 03:22:24 CEST 2008

I gave it a try with cygwin-hosted mingw just to see
if that would work as an alternative to VS2008/VC9 to
figure out some linkage problems.
I tried:
 python setup.py build_ext --compiler mingw32
and got a version string issue noted below which
rejects the version string printed from the loader
ld as an inappropriate form.
I seem to recall that mingw was expected to work with 2.6.
Is it?
Thanks - Jim
running build_ext
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "finsim/setup.py", line 96, in <module>
 package_dir = {'finsim': 'finsim'},
 File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup
 dist.run_commands()
 File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_commands
 self.run_command(cmd)
 File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 992, in run_command
 cmd_obj.run()
 File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 309, in run
 force=self.force)
 File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\ccompiler.py", line 1175, in new_compiler
 return klass (None, dry_run, force)
 File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 306, in 
__init__
 CygwinCCompiler.__init__ (self, verbose, dry_run, force)
 File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 107, in 
__init__
 get_versions()
 File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 430, in 
get_versions
 ld_version = StrictVersion(result.group(1))
 File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\version.py", line 40, in __init__
 self.parse(vstring)
 File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\version.py", line 107, in parse
 raise ValueError, "invalid version number '%s'" % vstring
ValueError: invalid version number '2.18.50.20080523'