Win2k and mingw gnu compiler with Python 2.3.2?

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2003 dbrown2 at yahoo.com wrote:

> Still no luck.  When I run "build" I do use the compiler flag as
> shown:
>
> C:>python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32
> C:>running build
> C:>running build_py
> C:>running build_ext
> C:>
>
> This seems to work fine.  The "install" command will not accept a
> compiler option.   Thanks for the suggestion though.
>
> The error
>      "Python was built with version 6 of Visual Studio, and extensions
>      need to be built with the same version of the compiler, but it
>      isn't installed."
>
> appears to be a windows issue related to the compiler used to build
> the binary installer version.  I could not find mention at python.org
> of who actually produces the windows installer and also couldn't find
> a credit in the installer itself.  Could someone point me to an
> appropriate contact or email to report this?  It doesn't appear to be
> a python language issue.

I'm sure that this has come up on the Distutils-SIG mailing list, and ISTR
someone came up with a workaround.  I suggest a scan of the list archives.

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