[Python-Dev] msvcr90 support was added to mingw

[Paul Moore]

On 30/11/2007, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Paul Moore got some Cygwin developers persuaded to implement support for
> msvcr90 [1]. The coded was added a few days ago [2]. This means that
> users are still able to use MinGW to compile extensions when we switch
> to VS 2008 as default compiler on Windows.
>
> I'm not sure how many people are interested in the topic but some may be
> glad to hear that MinGW is still supported.

Thanks for letting people know about this Christian! I'm waiting until
there's a released binary with this included (or I get time to work
out how to build my own!), and then I'll work up a patch for distutils
to make this work.

Paul.