[issue6335] Add support for mingw

[smartmobili]

New submission from smartmobili <forumer at smartmobili.com>:

Hi,

I can see that python still doesn't support mingw environnment whil
during past years some people provided some patch.
I wanted recently to compile Python-3.0.1 on mingw and I have found a
patch in a svn repository of a opensource project(don't remember which
one)- So I attach it and I hope it will studied by python dev.
Generally it's not very difficult, you should add some #ifdef
__MINGW32__ when needeed and hack around these lines.
Don't understand you still don't support it.

So this patch is a first step because it doesn't work very well, I mean
I had to copy manually errmap.h from PC to include folder.
And after I get an issue :

gcc -L/usr/local/lib  -o python.exe \
                Modules/python.o \
                libpython3.0.a    -lm
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
ImportError: No module named encodings.utf_8

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
make: *** [sharedmods] Error 3

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components: Build
files: python3-mingw.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 89663
nosy: smartmobili
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add support for mingw
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14353/python3-mingw.patch

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