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

[David Cournapeau]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:17 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
> wrote:
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>> 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).
>>
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> mingw32 is a more compliant C compiler (VS2008 does not implement much
> from C89)
>

That should read much C99, of course, otherwise VS 2008 would have been a
completely useless C compiler !

David
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