<div dir="ltr">While it is possible to mix-and-match DLLs from Visual Studio with those from MinGW or those from other compilers, it is not recommended as it requires special work during the compiling and linking phase. It's rather difficult. Thus, it would be easiest on you to build the bindings with the same compiler and linker that Python is built with (and Python does not, as yet, support building with MinGW although they are working towards that).<div>
<br></div><div>That said, I have no idea if Swig is compatible with Visual Studio, nor if there is a version available for running on Windows, nor if it would produce a DLL that would link happily on Windows against Python, nor how to install a Python module on Windows, nor anything else related to the building of the bindings on Windows. I am the "pumpkin holder" for the Swig bindings, though, so if you come across any enhancement that need to be made to the building of the Sword bindings on Windows, I'd be happy to work with you to get it incorporated into the trunk. One thing to note - there are currently only two ways to build the Swig bindings - through autotools and through CMake. I have tried to build the CMake scripts such that they will build the engine on Windows, but I don't believe I completely succeeded from the sounds of it - the last report I heard was that it didn't quite work. You could either tap into the existing vc++ project file or work to update and edit the existing CMake scripts which already have support for the Swig bindings as built-in as they can be.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Other than that, the best I can do is wish you Good Luck!</div><div><br></div><div>--Greg</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:33 PM, rj_qgsous_sword <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rj_qgsous_sword@objectmail.com" target="_blank">rj_qgsous_sword@objectmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I would like to make Python bindings to Sword. From reading the
documentation that comes with Sword, I see that I need to build the
entire Sword library in order to do this. What would be the
recommended compiler to use?<br>
<br>
I am running Windows 8.1. I don't have any experience with making
SWIG bindings, so I'm not sure whether or not I would need to use
the same version of Visual Studio that Python is compiled with
(which, for Python 2, is VC2008). If not, my guess would be that I
should use a newer version of Visual Studio, but I could also use
MinGW or anything else that works. Also, if I should use Visual Studio, would the Express edition work?<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
<br>
-- Timothy</div>
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