[issue6007] distutils tricks you into thinking you can build extensions with mingw

[Chris Lambacher]

Chris Lambacher <chris at kateandchris.net> added the comment:

I just compiled the zope.interface c speedups with MinGW on Python 2.7 and 2.6. 

There is a patch being tracked in the MinGW patch tracker <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2134161&group_id=2435&atid=302435> related to the localtime linking issue, but there is no indication that the patch was accepted.

My experience with MinGW has been that it almost always works except where C++ is used or MinGW itself trips on a MSVCRT issue. Perhaps a note about that would be sufficient to close this bug?

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nosy: +lambacck

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