[issue12641] Remove -mno-cygwin from distutils

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis added the comment:

Am 21.05.13 23:14, schrieb Oscar Benjamin:
> More generally I think that compiling non-cygwin extensions with
> cygwin gcc should be altogether deprecated (for Python 3.4 at least).
> It should be discouraged in the docs and unsupported in the future. 

I agree with that, although I find it sad that the Cygwin project
apparently abandoned support for building Mingw binaries.

> It can only work with -mno-cygwin 

This is factually incorrect. It also works with the i686-pc-mingw32-gcc
executable, which (IIUC) is still available for Cygwin.

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