Please Recommend a C compiler for use with Python.

[Andrew MacIntyre]

[posted & mailed]
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 zenguyuno at yahoo.com wrote:

> "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> >
> > Skip Montanaro wrote:
> > >     z> I use a generic PC running Win 98.  What's a good, Easy-to-use and
> > >     z> install, ANSI C compiler?  I might mention that I mainly want to
> > >     z> extend Python by writing routines in C.
> > >
> > > You might try Cygwin.
> >
> > I'm not so sure that this is a good choice when it comes to extending
> > Python. If the standard Python distribution is to be extended, you
> > really should use MSVC 6 (if you can still get copies of that).
>
> Cygwin requires knowing Unix, right?  I don't know much Unix.
> I do want to extend the standard Python distribution for Windows.

I've successfully used MingW32 (http://www.mingw.org/ IIRC) to build
Python extensions (I used v1.1, based on gcc 2.95.3; v2.0 based on gcc 3.2
is current).

It can take some fiddling to get a usable Python import library, but
google will find docco to help with that.

Regards,
Andrew.

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