> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:54:24 +0800
> Subject: Re: windows 7 Python modules
> From: xiaofanc@xxxxxxxxx
> To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Joachim Schambach
> <jschamba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have invented my own protocol to communicate with an FPGA based board
> > we designed that uses an FTDI chip to provide USB access. This protocol
> > includes functions like readRegister, writeRegister, readMemory,
> > writeMemory, etc.
> > I have a C++ library that provides these functions to the command line,
> > or to a (C++) application program.
> > At some point, we decided it would be nice to have scripting capability
> > for these functions and decided on Python to provide this. It was easy
> > to convert the library into a Python "extension" module under Linux and
> > compile it.
> > Now one of our users wants to do the scripting in Windows, so I am
> > trying to simply compile the same module under Windows.
> > From the libftdi web the claim is that it works under Windows, so I
> > thought it would be easy to port this module, which I am now finding is
> > a little more work than I thought. I didn't want to have to re-write the
> > whole protocol in Python again (having to try to figure out how to do
> > that), but rather just provide the final "user" function in Python, thus
> > the idea to compile the protocol as a module...
> > cheers,
>
> I see. It should work. I think you can try the 32bit Python first with
> MinGW.org or MinGW-w64 32bit toolchain to see if that works.
> 32bit Python 2.7 has an import library named libpython27.a for MinGW.
>
> Forget about 64bit Python 2.7 for a while, there Python did not
> provide the import library for MinGW and there is more trouble
> there.
> Ref: http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/30503023/
no, you can rebuild the import lib with mingw-tools, i successfully built win64 python bindings for another project that uses swig.
>
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