[Distutils] SWIG+distutils+Windows???

[Jason Tishler]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 06:52:18PM +0000, John J. Lee wrote:
> You don't need to download mingw, cygwin will compile it without linking
> to cygwin1.dll -- Distutils tells cygwin to do this (presumably) by
> passing the -mno-cygwin option.

Unfortunately, the current Cygwin gcc with -mno-cygwin produces executables
that are bound to crtdll.dll and *not* msvcrt.dll.  This behavior will
be changed in a new Cygwin gcc version.  But, until then, I think that
the mingw msvcrt version is the way to go for straight Win32 Python.

Jason

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