./configure -host=i686-pc-mingw32 –enable-python=no

make

: o )

the only problem now is when i export a pst with special characters folders in windows, it displays them wrong in console. The linux port doesnt have this problem. Any idea why?

it returns again:

checking for a version of Python >= ’2.1.0′… yes
checking for a version of Python 2.7… yes
checking for the distutils Python package… yes
checking for Python include path… -I/usr/include/python2.7
checking for Python library path… -L/usr/lib -lpython2.7
checking for Python site-packages path… /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
checking python extra libraries… -lpthread -ldl -lutil
checking python extra linking flags… -Xlinker -export-dynamic
checking consistency of all components of python development environment… no
configure: error: in `/home/myprofile/libpst’:
configure: error:
Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python library has been
installed in some non-standard library path. If so, pass it to configure,
via the LDFLAGS environment variable.
Example: ./configure LDFLAGS=”-L/usr/non-standard-path/python/lib”
============================================================================
ERROR!
You probably have to install the development version of the Python package
for your distribution. The exact name of this package varies among them.
============================================================================

Im stuck

-c

Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python library has been
installed in some non-standard library path. If so, pass it to configure,
via the LDFLAGS environment variable.
Example: ./configure LDFLAGS=”-L/usr/non-standard-path/python/lib”
============================================================================
ERROR!
You probably have to install the development version of the Python package
for your distribution. The exact name of this package varies among them.
============================================================================

Python 2.7 is already installed, why am i getting this error?

im using Fedora 11.

Thank you.
Any ideas?

-c

Can someone help me?

I did manage to get it working, which I’ll have to post at some point!

Cheers,
Chris

I had the same problem yesterday, so I hacked together a simple solution. Using libpst-0.6.45.tar.gz, MinGW, GnuWin32′s Regex and LibIconv I came up with a simple gcc command to create readpst.exe. See my blog at http://ionipti.blogspot.com/2009/12/libpst-and-readpst-hacked-way-on-vista.html. I am running Vista 64 but this creates a 32-bit executable.

I also put up readpst.exe on my site: http://nkcorner.com/readpst.exe.

I didn’t check all the functions, but it extracts my files to text which is all I desired.

Thanks for the suggestion. I previously tried all sorts of things, including MinGW, without success.

With Fedora 12 however, it appears to work. Yay!

I can build it now with simply:
mingw32-configure && make

Or this should work:
./configure –host=i686-pc-mingw32 && make

This creates readpst.exe which is what I want.

I’d like to build it statically however, rather than having to ship all the MinGW dlls separately.

I did have to install a number of extra MinGW libraries, including mingw32-gcc-c++, mingw32-libgnurx and mingw32-iconv.

Thanks for the suggestion to try MinGW again!

Have you tried cross compiling it from Linux to windows? If it uses the autotools, it should be as easy as:

./configure –host=i586-mingw32msvc –target=i586-pc-mingw32msvc –build=i686-linux

I use the mingw32 packages on Debian/Ubuntu to compile win32 binaries for libsndfile (I also run the test suite under Wine). For 64 bit windows i’ve built a cross-compiler from the mingw-w64.sf.net sources.

HTH,
Erik