From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17069 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2011 16:10:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 17059 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Jan 2011 16:10:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:09:55 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F792BACC8; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:09:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ZnDfkkXNrPka; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:09:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E842BACC6; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:09:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CE8481459AD; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:09:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:24:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: FYI: WIP patch to build GDB with Python on MinGW Message-ID: <20110121160953.GC2440@adacore.com> References: <20110121011433.GA2440@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-01/txt/msg00442.txt.bz2 > > b. the python library in the /Lib directory > > I think it's in /libs, actually. What's in /Lib is the > set of *.py Python library modules. Yeah - I actually meant the .py files. I don't know what the proper term for that would be - perhaps the run-time library. Not sure, since libpython definitely is part of the runtime. > > and is named libpython27.a (not '.' in the version number, > > unlike on Unix where it's libpython2.7.a). Note that despite > > the .a filename extension, it's NOT an archive (it sorta points > > to the DLL, so at the end GDB is linked against the DLL which > > is in the directory). > > I think libpython27.a _is_ an archive (try "ar tv" on it). I believe > this is a so-called "import library" used to link programs against the > corresponding DLL. Aha - I'm quite unfamiliar with Windows, so that explains the confusion. Thanks for clarifying. -- Joel