[Python-Dev] mingw support?

[David Cournapeau]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:06 PM,  <linux at gabriel-striewe.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:55:29PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> On 8/9/2010 2:47 PM, Sturla Molden wrote:
>> >> Terry Reedy:
>> >
>> >>     MingW has become less attractive in recent years by the difficulty
>> >> in downloading and installing a current version and finding out how to
>> >> do so. Some projects have moved on to the TDM packaging of MingW.
>> >>
>> >> http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/
>>
>> Someone else deserves credit for writing that and giving that link ;-)
>
> Yes, that was a great link, thanks. It works fine for me.
>
> The reason I was bringing up this topic again was that I think the gnu
> autotools have been made for exactly this purpose, to port software to
> different platforms,

Autotools only help for posix-like platforms. They are certainly a big
hindrance on windows platform in general,

cheers,

David