Mingw32 modules (was: "win32: cygwin modules")

[Jody M. Klymak]

Hi Robert,

Thanks, I found your page via dejanews ten minutes after I posted (why
oh why does dejanews default to only searching "recent" messages?).
I'm giving it a try.
 
>>>>> "RK" == Robert Kern <kern at its.caltech.edu> writes:

    RK> Simply put, don't bother with CygWin.  It does have a few
    RK> problems working with Python.  Mingw32 works perfectly AFAICT.
    RK> See my page <URL:
    RK> http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/mingw32/Notes.html > for
    RK> detailed instructions.

    RK> To the Python Gods:

    RK> Has this been asked often enough to make it a FAQ?

I'd agree that this is an important piece of information - one of the
attractions of python is that its free, so it seems kind of cruel to
require one to buy expensive C compilers on Win32 machines in order to
get extensions to work.

Thanks a lot,   Jody

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