python-dev Summary, 2002-11-01 through 2002-11-15

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On 20 Nov 2002, TeaAndBikkie wrote:

> This restriction seems a bit unfriendly... is there any direction to getting
> python compilable on/for windows with an open source compiler, eg. gcc, mingw,
> etc?

As the timbot mentioned, Cygwin is actively supported, and someone is
looking into a MingW build.  I have used MingW to compile extensions for
the PythonLabs MSVC distro - did require a bit of library mangling to get
a usable Python DLL import library, but there are instructions on how to
do that.

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