Using GNU C complier as the "default" windows complier

[Werner Fouche]

"Mike Callahan" <mcalla at home.com> wrote in message
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> This a question from a newbie but I was thinking...why doesn't the default
> Python code for windows use the GNU C complier for windows instead of the
MS
> complier. Would it be possible to distribute the GNU package along with
the
> Python package and thus make it easier to compile, extend, and embed
Python,
> use freeze, etc? I know it would take some work, but it seems it would
make
> windows Python a lot more like unix Python. Just a thought...
>
>

I had the same idea on the weekend. So I installed Cygwin
(http://www.cygnus.com/cygwin) on my NT system and after running
"./configure" got Python to compile and run. However, I could not get Python
threads to work.