Compiling disutil modules on Windows

[Roger Binns]

Geoff Caplan wrote:
> I now have mingw working, but some of the packages I want to try are
> only distributed in disutils format. I can't figure out a way to get
> these packages to use the mingw compiler. Is this possible, or do I
> really have to shell out $$ to microsoft to get these installed?

python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 bdist_wininst

Roger