[Python-Dev] mingw support?

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Aug 9 23:00:55 CEST 2010


On 8/9/2010 2:47 PM, Sturla Molden wrote:
>> Terry Reedy:
[...]
> 
> Python's distutils do not work with the SDK compiler, only Visual Studio.
> Building Python extensions with the SDK compiler is not as easy as it
> could (or should) be.
> 
At one point Mike Fletcher published a patch to make distutils use the
SDK compiler. It would make a lot of sense if it were built in to
distutils as a further compiler choice.

regards
 Steve
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