[Python-Dev] Status of C compilers for Python on Windows

[Roumen Petrov]

Victor Stinner wrote:
> Hi,
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> === MinGW
>
> Some people tried to compile Python. See for example:
> https://bitbucket.org/puqing/python-mingw
>
> We even got some patches:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue3871 (rejected)
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As "all in one" patch it was rejected , but you could find splits:
17605 - mingw-meta: build interpeter core
18653 - mingw-meta: build core modules

Lot of people post links to possible issues using GCC windows compiler. 
A lot of them are not real issues for CPython.


In addition for those why would like to cross compile C-extensions for 
MS Windows either from linux of cygwin then could use this set:
18654 - modernize mingw&cygwin compiler classes


I could step in as maintainer for Cygwin and builds based on GCC using 
mingw* APIs.


Regards,
Roumen Petrov