[Python-Dev] mingw support?

[linux at gabriel-striewe.de]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 03:21:15PM +0200, Sturla Molden wrote:
> 
> "David Cournapeau":
> > Autotools only help for posix-like platforms. They are certainly a big
> > hindrance on windows platform in general,
> 
> That is why mingw has MSYS.
> 
> mingw is not just a gcc port, but also a miniature gnu environment for
> windows. MSYS' bash shell allows us to do things like:
> 
> $ ./configure
> $ make && make install
> 
> 
> 
> Sturla

I will try to compile the python-svn trunk then by using the
autotools plus tdm-gcc (a mingw fork) as well as MSYS. I might try to
report any errors back to the autotools list and sort out with them
what is happening.

Gabriel