Python-devel on Windows XP build

Wed Jul 29 23:33:00 GMT 2009

Jason Tishler wrote:
> Gwen,
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 02:57:38AM -0400, Gwen Morse wrote:
>> I'm trying to compile Tinyfuge with python extensions on my Windows XP
>> box. I have the source which is reported by friends to compile
>> properly on linux systems.
>>>> ./configure fails, checking the log I see this message:
>>>> configure:8153: result: no
>> configure:8169: checking for strstr
>> configure:8226: gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -DTFPYTHON 
>> -I/usr/include/python2.5 -Lpcre-2.08 conftest.c -lssl -lcrypto 
>> -lpython2.5 >&5
>> conftest.c:68: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'strstr'
>> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
>> cannot find -lpython2.5
>> The following will solve the above build problem:
>> LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/python2.5/config configure
>> Jason
>
 I believe you're meant to specify LDFLAGS after the 'configure' these days,
i.e. as an argument to configure, not a shell variable.
./configure LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/python2.5/config < other args ... >
 cheers,
 DaveK
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