Re: Building PyTave on windows - cygwin

[Abhinav Tripathi]

On Jun 28, 2016 11:46 PM, "Mike Miller" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> If you dig into the configure script, you can see where the "None" is
> coming from. The shell variable is $PYTHON_EXTRA_LIBS, and the value
> comes from this command:
>
>   $PYTHON -c 'import distutils.sysconfig; print(distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var("LINKFORSHARED"))'
>
> On Debian I get a value of
>
>   -Xlinker -export-dynamic -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
>
> but in your environment, the value must be None. Can you confirm that?

Yes, I tried and its None.

> If that's the case, then we can add a case to omit that in the configure
> script.

I have no clue how to do that. Any starting point?

> You should be able to work around this in the meantime by setting this
> variable to some valid flag, such as
>
>   export PYTHON_EXTRA_LIBS=-g
>
> --
> mike

Thanks. That worked!
I'm now getting some boost errors. I'll try to resolve and post if I get stuck somewhere.

.
Abhinav