[Mingw-cross-env-list] Crosscompiling and linking against Win32 Python, possible?

[Kay Hayen]

Hello everybody,

Here is what I am doing, I am the author of a Python compiler that so 
far was only available for Linux. But somebody took the necessary steps 
to make it portable and it seems to compile on native Win32 with mingw now.

That's a great achievement, because I wasn't shy to heavily depend on 
latest g++ and POSIX only interfaces.

Now my goal is now to be able to cross-compile the Python source code to 
Win32 binaries as well. These compiled binaries need to link the Python 
library to run.

So I installed gcc-mingw32 on my Debian, but I found out it's too old 
(4.4, this is Wheezy), so I found your mingw-cross-env and used it to 
install the latest version 2.19 to install a cross compiler 4.5.2, which 
appears to work fine. I did only "make gcc" which seems to imply 
"w32api", so that's good.

Now with Python, I decided I would download and install the ActiveState 
build with wine and access the Python include files and Libraries from 
there.

Then I integrated that into scons, and it finally comes up with a 
command like this:

# /opt/mingw/usr/bin/i686-pc-mingw32-g++ -o pystone.exe 
-Wl,--enable-auto-import pystone.build/static/CompiledFunctionType.o 
pystone.build/static/CompiledGeneratorType.o 
pystone.build/static/CompiledMethodType.o 
pystone.build/static/CompiledGenexprType.o 
pystone.build/static/CompiledCodeHelpers.o 
pystone.build/static/win32_ucontext_src/ucontext.o 
pystone.build/__constants.o pystone.build/__main__.o 
-L/home/hayen/.wine/drive_c/Python26/libs 
-L/home/hayen/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 -lpython26
/home/hayen/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/user32.dll: file not 
recognized: File format not recognized

The problematic library has this type:

# file /home/hayen/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/user32.dll
/home/hayen/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/user32.dll: PE32 executable 
for MS Windows (DLL) (unknown subsystem) Intel 80386 32-bit

The working, native library from Python installer has this type:

#  file /home/hayen/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/python26.dll
/home/hayen/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/python26.dll: PE32 executable 
for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit

So where do I go from there? Do I have to provide native DLL files for 
the build? The ones in /usr/lib32/wine-unstable/fakedlls don't seem to 
cut it either.

Thanks for your help,
Kay Hayen