Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

(2014/02/13 8:21), Tom Lane wrote:
> Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 02/12/2014 02:31 PM, Inoue, Hiroshi wrote:
>>> Maybe this is one of the few use cases of dlltool.
>>> Because python doesn't ship with its MINGW import library, the
>>> Makefile uses dlltool to generate an import library from the python
>>> DLL.
> 
>> Wow. Has anyone been in touch with the Python package maintainers to see
>> if they can fix that and bundle the .lib ?
> 
> Indeed somebody should pester them about that, but it's not clear how
> much it'd help us even if they fixed it tomorrow.  We're going to have
> to be able to build with existing Python distributions for a long time
> to come.

Though the comment in src/pl/plpython/Makefile refers to it, I see
libpython27.a in Python27. I can't find it in Python25.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue