Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: gr_python.m4

[Martin Dvh]

Stephane Fillod wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:30:02PM -0700, Eric Blossom wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:04:55AM +0200, Stephane Fillod wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 05:24:59PM -0700, Eric Blossom wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > So, then the question becomes, "what's the easiest way to build GNU
> > > > Radio for a windows target?"
> > >
> > > I would say natively. Since I'm a developer and not a Windows final
> > > user, I'll be the only one doing cross-development.
> > >
> > >
> > > > I thought that most people ran MinGW under windows.  I take it that
> > > > you are running it under linux and generating windows binaries.
> > > > Perhaps a quicker path is just to make GNU Radio build under MinGW
> > > > running under windows?  Then the cross development issues go away.
> > >
> > > I'd like, if possible, to keep the ability to cross-build MinGW under
> > > Linux. This is very handy to check the portabilty, from the same source
> > > tree (VPATH), without having to reboot.
> >
> > OK.  Can we have these goals:
> >
> >  * builds natively under MinGW
> >  * builds cross-compiled from x86 GNU/Linux
> >  * doesn't break anything else
>
>
> Ok.
>
>
> > > I think this is possible cheaply thanks to the autoconf cache and
> > > some ac_cv_* variable overload from the configure line. I'll come up
> > > with a config/gr_python.m4.
> >
> > Thanks.  
> >
> > You may want to consider the distutils fragment with the replace
> > operation that floated across the list a couple of days ago.  
> > I haven't applied it to gr_python.m4 and will hold off pending your patch.
>
>
> Don't hold off. I'm off for the week-end, so you can go ahead with it.
I am also having a look at it.
(Including code to do only the win32 stuff on win32 and to determine the exact 
name of libpython24.a )
I have also a new createfilemapping that should map continuous.
If I have time I will finish and test it tomorrow and send the patches.
Otherwise it will be next week.
Greetings,
Martin