[Distutils] Compiling extensions with MingW32 / python.org binary

[Michael Droettboom]

Moore, Paul wrote:

>From: Michael Droettboom
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>>I've come across a possible bug with --compiler=mingw32 and 
>>--compiler=cygwin support when using the standard python.org 2.3.3 
>>.exe.  (I do this so I can distribute binary installers that work with 
>>the standard Python distribution, but don't want to buy MS Visual Studio...)
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>I don't have a C extension handy to try at the moment, but I haven't
>had a problem in the past using mingw (--compiler=mingw32) and
>python.org python 2.3.3.
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>Can you clarify what you are having problems with? Using python.org
>python with cygwin gcc (--compiler=cygwin)? If so, I have no experience
>with that, so I can't help (beyond saying that mingw works fine, so
>don't break that in the process of fixing the cygwin case!)
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I'm having problems with both --compiler=cygwin and --compiler=mingw32.