distutils cygwin bdist_wininst

[Gerhard Häring]

Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Is it possible to create a Windows installer with distutils using the 
> Cygwin/mingw gcc compiler?

$ python setup.py --compiler=mingw32
$ python setup.py bdist_wininst

'python' must be the win32 Python, *not* the Cygwin Python.

Gerhard
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