[Distutils] non-"standard" compilers...

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Fri May 27 18:34:53 CEST 2005


At 12:15 PM 5/27/2005 -0400, Nicholas Bastin wrote:
>Also, I'm assuming this is only true on unix?  Win32 seems to pick
>MSVC no matter what (and complain a lot if you don't have it).

That's because MSVC is the only supported compiler for Python on that 
platform.  There has been some work on supporting the MinGW compiler, and 
the MinGW compiler can be used to build extensions that work on Windows, 
but nobody has done any work on supporting any other compilers that I know of.



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