Archived entries for Windows
Windows 7 + Family Guy = Horror. Here’s the proof
Just another Windows Ad Camping, guess how awesome it is !!! And this is the reason why I prefer South Park.
Building Python Modules on Windows
Python is a great cross platform application development environment. There is a wide range of python modules (libraries) available. In most cases, module distributors supply platform specific installers which already built or at least they distribute the source code and let it to be built and installed by developers.
It is easy to build and install any python module in a Unix system. Because all *nix systems have a built in development environment to build python modules ( or any language). So, just typing “python setup.py buil” and “python setup.py install” will be enough to get things done. Hard part is
having a windows. There are some options this issue:
1 -) Using MS Visual Studio ( I hate it)
2 -) Using Cygwin to get gcc for Windows
3 -) Using MinGW to get gcc for Windows
I choosed the 3rd option, it is the easiest one. What you have to do is get MinGW installer
and install required compilers and set it to your OS path. Mine is “C:\MinGW\bin”. Then, open a command prompt and cd to the source folder of the python module. Run build statement “python setup.py build -c mingw32″ this will build your module and get it ready to use. The build tool will generate a folder called “build\lib.win32-*.*” which contains compiled libraries. Copy those libraries to somewhere in python classpath. Mine is located at “C:\Python25\Lib”. That is it.You are ready to use your module. To test it, you can use pycrypto.
Php Namespace Separator Discussion
I couldn’t figure out why developers wasted time to decide “\” backslash as the namespace separator for php. I think, they should have choosed exiting ones like “.” or “::”. I wish windows developers luck for “\” confusions on windows.
