[Distutils] Compiler support for VC++ 2005

[Jorge Vargas]

On 2/8/07, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/02/07, Jorge Vargas <jorge.vargas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > yes that's true the problem comes when you need windows.h or other
> > file that the mingw people can't distribute.
>
> Um, windows.h comes with mingw - it's in the win32api package. (Which
> doesn't alter the fact that MySQL may not support being compiled by
> mingw - but that's not because mingw doesn't supply the Windows
> headers and library files).
>
you may want to check that again the windows.h mingw supplies is not
exactly the same as the windows one, other files have this problem
too, and of course they are not allowed to redistribute anything that
comes with VS.

> Paul.
>