[Distutils] Problem compiling Extensions on Win32

[Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon]

>>>python setup.py build -cmingw32
>>>
>>>I get a hole bunch of undefined interface type errors (the computer's at home
>>>so I'm going by memory) similar to __Inf__PyString undefined, and it ends off
>>>with a line about WinMain at 16 with that setup terminates.
>>
> This is [..] what you can find in the documentation 
> http://python.org/doc/current/inst/tweak-flags.html#SECTION000622000000000000000
> 
> But nobody seems to read it. Maybe the compiler class should check for
> libpython??.a and print a warning with a link 
> to the documentation.
> 
Another possibility would be to include the appropriate libpython??.a with the 
Windows version of Python, in order to make developing C extensions easier for 
open-source developers that are using gcc instead of Microsoft's compiler.

--Michiel.

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