anyone using Quantlib-Swig-0.9.6+ with Python 2.3?
Posted by kmanley on Jan 12, 2009; 3:05pm
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/anyone-using-Quantlib-Swig-0-9-6-with-Python-2-3-tp6992.html
I have built QuantLib-SWIG 0.9.6 for Python 2.6 using the Visual Studio 2008 compiler and everything works great.
Now I need to access QuantLib from within Sungard Front Arena 2.2 which forces the use of Python 2.3
Python C extensions have to be built with the same compiler used to built Python itself so I need to be able to build QuantLib with a compiler compatible with Python 2.3. I know that Visual C++ 6.0 was used for Python 2.3, and I also know that Visual C++ 6.0 can't be used to build QuantLib 0.9.6 (fair enough--it's an ancient compiler)
I've seen some references on the web to the fact that mingw32 can be used to build Python 2.3 C extensions. So my question is has anyone ever built QuantLib-SWIG 0.9.6+ using mingw32? If so can you please tell me exactly the steps you took to do so.
Thanks for any help!
Kevin