[Vortex] Build requirements / Python

[Francis Brosnan Blazquez]

> Hi, 

Hi Robert,

> I'm trying to get the newest AXL and VORTEX library compiled with
> MingW using ./configure.
> 
> For the older releases this always succeeded but now it seems that a
> Python installation is required. Unfortunately there is no official
> MingW Python version.

Ok, I'll check why PyVortex is not optional. It should be disabled
automatically when python is not found. Try passing --disabled-py-vortex
to your ./configure

> - Why is Python now required? These steps make the compile
> infrastructure more and more complicated.

Technically it should only be activated when python environment is
found. In any case, you can still disable it.

> - IIRC you use MingW for Windows as well. How do I setup Python and
> which version is required?

This is a good question. Currently PyVortex is not being built for
windows because there is no python-config script included into official
python win32 installer. This script is used by vortex ./configure to
detect and configure PyVortex....so it is required a bit of work to find
a way to make ./configure to enable pyvortex.

Cheers!

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> Robert M. Münch
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> http://www.robertmuench.de
> 
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Francis Brosnan Blazquez <francis at aspl.es>
ASPL