April 3, 2008
1:07 p.m.
On Apr 3, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
Install gcc (I recommend cygwin, but mingw will also work), and put the following stanza into your distutils config file:
Isn't it a bad idea to mix MSVC-built Python and Cygwin GCC-built extensions in the same process?
As I mentioned in letter to which you replied (above), there are some cases where this is a bad idea, but they appear to be vanishingly rare in practice.
[build] compiler=mingw32
I can do "python setup.py build -c mingw32," even better :-).
Yes, but if you want to use easy_install, you would have to edit your distutils config file. Regards, Zooko