[Distutils] Re: cygwin/mingw issues

[Thomas Heller]

Simon Burton <simon at arrowtheory.com> writes:

> I'm trying to build an extension for python2.2.2 and distutils on cygwin.
>
> -cmingw has error:
> cant compile on platform "nt" with "mingw" compiler
>

I made a quick test (I normally use MSVC):
It seems to work with -cmingw32.  From cmd, have not tried from cygwin.

Although I get linker errors, probably because I don't have libpython.a
or how this is named.

Thomas