diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/inst/inst.tex | 19 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/inst/inst.tex b/Doc/inst/inst.tex index 4ac274f..d938b5e 100644 --- a/Doc/inst/inst.tex +++ b/Doc/inst/inst.tex @@ -989,18 +989,17 @@ for Distutils (see section~\ref{config-files}.) \end{seealso} -\subsubsection{GNU C / Cygwin / MinGW32} +\subsubsection{GNU C / Cygwin / MinGW} This section describes the necessary steps to use Distutils with the -GNU C/\Cpp{} compilers in their Cygwin and MinGW32 +GNU C/\Cpp{} compilers in their Cygwin and MinGW distributions.\footnote{Check \url{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/} and \url{http://www.mingw.org/} for more information} +For a Python interpreter that was built with Cygwin, everything should +work without any of these following steps. -\XXX{For a Python which was built with Cygwin, all should work without -any of these following steps.} - -These compilers also require some special libraries. +These compilers require some special libraries. This task is more complex than for Borland's \Cpp, because there is no program to convert the library. % I don't understand what the next line means. --amk @@ -1038,7 +1037,7 @@ python setup.py build --compiler=cygwin and for Cygwin in no-cygwin mode\footnote{Then you have no \POSIX{} emulation available, but you also don't need -\file{cygwin1.dll}.} or for MinGW32 type: +\file{cygwin1.dll}.} or for MinGW type: \begin{verbatim} python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 @@ -1050,12 +1049,12 @@ for Distutils (see section~\ref{config-files}.) \begin{seealso} \seetitle[http://www.zope.org/Members/als/tips/win32_mingw_modules] - {Building Python modules on MS Windows platform with MinGW32} - {Information about building the required libraries for the MinGW32 + {Building Python modules on MS Windows platform with MinGW} + {Information about building the required libraries for the MinGW environment.} \seeurl{http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/ftp/win32-stuff/} - {Converted import libraries in Cygwin/MinGW32 and Borland format, + {Converted import libraries in Cygwin/MinGW and Borland format, and a script to create the registry entries needed for Distutils to locate the built Python.} \end{seealso} |