[Cython] Cython 0.16 issue Windows with Mingw32

[Nathan Dunfield]

On Apr 23, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Hmm, that line basically just says "PyCFunction_Call", which is a function
> exported by CPython. I wonder why gcc would consider this "not a constant".
> 
> Could you check if the preprocessor (gcc -E, with all the above includes)
> also sees that on your side?

It turns out I was running a version of MinGW that, while only a few years old, had a quite elderly version of gcc, namely 3.4 (yes, that's 3.4 and not 4.3).   Once I updated to the most recent MinGW, which has gcc 4.6, and worked around a known bug in distutils ( http://bugs.python.org/issue12641 ), the issue with PyCFunction_Call went away and the entire 76k line Cython generated C file compiled without a hitch.  So probably this is only a problem on very old compilers, and so perhaps not worth investigating further.

	Best,

	Nathan