Changes between Version 48 and Version 49 of AdvancedInstall

Timestamp:

2011-11-20T20:52:06Z (13 years ago)

Author:

marcusw

Comment:

Add step which was reqired for me to get the mingw compiler used when there was another gcc on the path

AdvancedInstall

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 2. Early versions of 5.1.x of MinGW had a bug in the bundled Gnu assembler. If typing "{{{as --version}}}" at the command line gives "{{{GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.20}}}", then you have an affected version. To fix this, download an upgrade to a newer version of MinGW which has {{{GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100613}}} or later.
 
-3. Configure distutils to use MinGW. To configure distutils to use mingw32, create a file called [http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/raw-attachment/wiki/AdvancedInstall/distutils.cfg distutils.cfg] in {{{C:\Python26\lib\distutils}}}, and put in that file:
+3. Configure distutils to use MinGW. If you have another C/C++ compiler installed, such as the cygwin one, distutils may default to using it instead of the mingw one. To configure distutils to use mingw32, create a file called [http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/raw-attachment/wiki/AdvancedInstall/distutils.cfg distutils.cfg] in {{{C:\Python26\lib\distutils}}}, and put in that file (you may also need to use the script from [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/041676.html this email] in order to "register" the mingw compiler):
 
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