From: Kian Wright <kianw@...>
Date: 2005-05-05T03:09:48+09:00
Subject: Re: C Extensions using MingW (invalid address LoadError)


"Steven Jenkins" <steven.jenkins@ieee.org> wrote in message
news:4278D341.9020702@ieee.org...
> Kian Wright wrote:
> > [....]
> > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. There doesn't appear to be much
> > documentation on producing extensions except with MSVC.
>
> Do you have to use MinGW? I've been able to build an extension using
> freely-downloadable MS tools. I (still) need to write up the steps, but
> it worked.

I guess I don't... I was under the (apparently erroneous) assumption that
the MSVC compiler was $$. I will look for some free downloads of stuff
(maybe it's just in the .NET framework), and try it.

Was it fairly straightforward to compile and link; using mkmf as described
in the PickAxe?

KW