[Python-Dev] mingw support?

[David Cournapeau]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no> wrote:
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> "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.

I know of MSYS, but it is not very pleasant to use, if only because it
is extremely slow. When I need to build things for windows, I much
prefer cross compiling to using MSYS. I also think that cross
compilation is more useful than native mingw build alone - there are
patches for cross compilation, but I don't know their current status,

cheers,

David