[Python-Dev] mingw support?

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Aug 9 23:37:33 CEST 2010


Am 09.08.2010 23:00, schrieb Steve Holden:
> On 8/9/2010 2:47 PM, Sturla Molden wrote:
>>> Terry Reedy:
> [...]
>>
>> Python's distutils do not work with the SDK compiler, only Visual Studio.
>> Building Python extensions with the SDK compiler is not as easy as it
>> could (or should) be.
>>
> At one point Mike Fletcher published a patch to make distutils use the
> SDK compiler. It would make a lot of sense if it were built in to
> distutils as a further compiler choice.

Please understand that this very choice is there already.

Regards,
Martin


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