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

[David Cournapeau]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:09:45 +1000
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Lots of folks are happy with POSIX emulation layers on Windows, as
> > they're OK with "basically works" rather than "works like any other
> > native application". "Basically works" isn't sufficient for many
> > Python-on-Windows use cases though, so the core ABI is a platform
> > native one, rather than a POSIX emulation.
> >
> > This makes Python fit in more cleanly with other Windows applications,
> > but makes it harder to write Python applications that span both POSIX
> > and Windows.
>
> I don't really understanding why that's the case. Only the
> building and packaging may be more difficult, and that assumes you're
> familiar with mingw32. But mingw32, AFAIK, doesn't make the Windows
> runtime magically POSIX-compatible (Cygwin does, to some extent).
>

mingw32 is a more compliant C compiler (VS2008 does not implement much from
C89), and it does implement quite a few things not implemented in the C
runtime, especially for math.

But TBH, those are not compelling cases to build python itself on mingw,
only to better support C extensions with mingw.

David


> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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