[Python-Dev] Status of C compilers for Python on Windows

[Paul Moore]

On 10 October 2014 17:28, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> There are 55 open issues on the bug tracker with mingw in the title.

It's not easy to tell, but on a spot check a fair proportion of them
seem to be about distutils/extension builds. And a lot of the rest are
related to http://bugs.python.org/issue3871 which is a rejected issue
about adding build support for mingw.

Paul