Problem with msvcrt60 vs. msvcr71 vs. strdup/free

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Scott David Daniels wrote:
> I encourage anyone who gets further into solving the "How do I use
> MinGW to build Python2.4 (and later) standard-distribution compatible
> modules (.pyd s)?" question to share any clues they have.  The MS
> free compiler is useful to many, but not all of us.

I think the simplest answer is "It works out of the box". Just do

python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32

If it fails, report what the failure is (the first failure should
be lack of libpython24.a, for which you can find build instructions
in Google).

Regards,
Martin