[Distutils] bdist_wininst compatibility with pythons and windows versions

[David Cournapeau]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:43 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> In addition bdist_wininst generates spurious warning about missing
> "necessary compiler setting" when run on Linux with an instruction to
> make sure win32* modules are installed (which are of course not).

Use wine and the issue disappears. I built a few official numpy/scipy
releases this way, and it works very well. There are issues on 64
bits, but I doubt that's an issue for scons or trac,

cheers,

David