[Distutils] How to easy_install from source package with mingw32 on Windows?

[Robert Kern]

zooko wrote:

> A deeper question is: wouldn't it be nice if "./setup.py install"  
> automatically used the "build -c mingw32" feature when necessary?   
> Would anyone be interested in extending distutils to do that?

You can configure it to do so already. Making distutils automatically figure out
that this is desired and safe is probably more magic than it's worth.

  http://docs.python.org/inst/config-syntax.html

Use a section in your pydistutils.cfg file like this:

[build_ext]
compiler=mingw32

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Robert Kern

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