Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Setting Up on New Machine

[Henry G. <he...@ca...>]

On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 10:18 -0500, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> > Theoretically, it should be possible to use cygwin to generate
> 64-bit 
> > binaries. Let me know if you decide to move forward in this
> direction, 
> > I might be able to help.
> 
> What I'm reading is saying that Mingw64 (i.e. Cygwin without the
> Cygwin 
> DLL) isn't a good option (yet).
> 
> http://wiki.cython.org/64BitCythonExtensionsOnWindows
> 
> The Python 2.6 win32 releases were all Mingw32 compiles, as that let
> me 
> use Mingw32 for 2.6 and VC++ Express for the 2.7 version.  I'll
> likely 
> go with the SDK approach for the 2.7 releases on 64-bit, not sure
> what 
> I'll do for the 64-bit 2.6 compiles yet.  If this wasn't a 
> pay-per-install OS I'd just set up a VM branch for the 2.6 release,
> but 
> I only have the one (real) machine with a Win64 license. 

There is more info on the distutils page on cross compiling:

http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html

I don't know how that tallies with the emphatic "Do not use MinGW-w64".
I'm assuming distutils uses mingw (though I don't really know).

cheers,

Henry