Creating C modules for Python under Cygwin

[Jason Tishler]

Martin,

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:50:18PM +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Jason Tishler <jason at tishler.net> writes:
> 
> > I asked the above question on the Cygwin list.  Someone pointed out
> > that even though the Python library is static, there still would be a
> > dependency on the Cygwin DLL.  So, it is impossible for Cygwin Python
> > to be completely self-contained (i.e., statically linked).
> 
> I wonder whether it is possible to compile Python in a Mingw
> configuration, though.

Appears so:

    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-March/020741.html

However, I presume that one loses (most/all) Posix functionality.

Jason