Distutils and MinGW with C++

[Martin v. Löwis]

> Thanks for the hint. I'm using the Microsoft Visual C Python Windows
> binaries.
> Perhaps distutils does not apply option --enable-cxx automatically. It
> allows the qualifier extra_compile_args=[] to be given in the setup.py
> file. Tomorrow, I'll try passing --enable-cxx and see what happens.

That is an option to configure, not an option to setup.

I don't think your setup (MSVC binaries, yet using MingW for C++
extension modules) is supported in distutils. It may be that you'll have
to change distutils; please contribute your changes.

Regards,
Martin