April 3, 2008
2:32 p.m.
On 10:50 am, sergey@optimaltec.com wrote:
Isn't it a bad idea to mix MSVC-built Python and Cygwin GCC-built extensions in the same process?
I believe this is outdated advice. There was a time that Cygwin GCC could not build "normal" windows Python extensions at all; nowadays, however, it can effectively masquerade as a particular version of the regular Microsoft compiler for linking purposes. MinGW's GCC has been able to do this for even longer. I don't quite understand the mechanics of this, but from your perspective it's simple: just do what zooko says ;-).