MinGW and Python
Brian Elmegaard
brian at rkspeed-rugby.dk
Tue Apr 25 06:49:43 EDT 2006
"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:
> It would certainly be possible to distribute a gcc-compiled python.
> However, what is the point in doing so? Cygwin already includes
> a gcc-compiled Python, for Windows:
Interesting.
> That is simply not true.
Actually, you answered me then too. I misunderstood after reading
http://sebsauvage.net/python/mingw.html.
Is the information on that page not correct? Has it never been?
> You can build the entire Python interpreter with Cygwin (but you
> don't need to, because there is a precompiled version), and you can
> build extensions for the python.org binary using MingW.
Great, then I tend to agree that there is no reason for building it
with mingw.
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