Re: [Adonthell-devel] Gentlemen, start your Windows!

[Kenneth Gangstoe]

Quoting Alexandre Courbot (address@hidden):
> WOOT! WOOOOOT! WOOOOOOOOOT!
> 
> Finally got the Python 2.2 Windows binary distribution, installed it
> with WineX (which really rocks, btw), and finally managed to build my
> mingw32 import library. Compiled, linked. Crash. Included the msvcrt.dll
> and msvcirt.dll that came with the Python distribution. Works. Works
> even much better than the previous binaries, which took ages to load,
> contrary to this one. The good thing, is that the .cc and .h files are
> directly taken from the Road_to_0.4 branch. No other modification.
> 
> A funny fact (if I may say so... :)) is that the PNM loading function
> was buggy right after including this msvcrt.dll. Well, this time it took
> less than one week to realise the PNM loading function were opening the
> files with the "r" flag instead of "rb"! ;)
> 
> But, hey. It worked with WineX, which doesn't mean yet it will work with
> Windows. So if you have access to Windows, please get
> http://www.gnurou.org/adonthell-stuff/wintest.tgz and test the two
> binaries. Just double clicking should be enough to get them to work, and
> I need many success reports to consider them to work. I for myself will
> be able to test them tomorrow too.

Just a small note - most users use zip under Windows, and would be easier
to provide binaries with .zip and not tar/gz (even though WinZip supports
this, the builtin zip support in Win XP doesn't).

Excellent job on the portability-issues - looking VERY forward to Waste's
Edge Windows :)

- Kenneth