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<[email protected]> · Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:14:49 +0000

From: Hill, Jeffrey O [mailto:[email protected]]
> > 1. select() in Windows only works on sockets.  I had previously
> > fudged my way around this with some WaitForMultipleObjects
> > hacks, but I've not yet figured out how to emulate select() on
> > Windows in a way which works for stdio, pipes *and* sockets, and
> > the latest cothread won't work without support for pipes (though
> > I'm willing to fake this as appropriate). Alas,
> > I've not take the time to figure this out, and it does not seem
> > straightforward.
> 
> Don't know of any solution. I am moving away from select in general,
> and handling things with extra threads that just block BTW.

Alas, that's going in the opposite direction of what I'm trying to achieve!

I have some glimmers of ideas, will have to wait for a rainy day...

> > 2. Compiling on Windows is nasty.  VC++ doesn't support C99, and its
> > assembler syntax is somewhat different, but it would seem that mingw
> > is very much a moving target.  Last time I tried a ming32 build I
> > ended up hacking my Python.h files to get things working and then
> > stopped in disgust.

> I have had good success with mingw. The visual C++ debugger is actually
> pretty good IMHO, but unfortunately MS has a long history of being a
> bit slow to adopt international standards. Maybe they are too busy
> hacking on C#.

Well, I don't know what had changed last time I tried (I didn't take notes, I'm afraid), but I do remember that simply doing #include <Python.h> no longer worked because a bunch of predefined constants had vanished from the mingw headers.

I haven't tried mingw very recently.  Are you able to compile the cothread extensions as they stand? 

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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