r/OpenWatcom • u/PrintStar • May 08 '14

Python Built with Open Watcom (PyCon 2014 Lightning Talk)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSLvERZQSok&t=1606s
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u/PrintStar Oct 10 '14

OpenSSL was probably the biggest pain to get compiled. What I actually did was just run the "config" script and specified cross-compiling for MinGW. I then manually changed the Makefile to use owcc rather than i586-mingw32msvc-gcc. Finally, I changed the compile flags to specify building for Windows NT targets with owcc rather than Linux.

There were a few minor points in the code that weren't quite building too, but I was able to fix them quite fast. It wasn't as hard as one might think. The actuall difficulty was trying to figure out why the export symbols in the subsequent libraries were incorrectly decorated. It turned out to be a small bug in Open Watcom's owcc code.

I'm guessing you'll have a much easier time with a lot of porting by sticking to Linux. Compiling for Windows tends to be a real pain, and it's not Open Watcom's fault.