MinGW and Python

[sturlamolden]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> - there is no build process available to do that

In MSYS:

$ ./configure --prefix=/c/mingw
$ make
$ make install

This should be obvious to any with Unix experience.

MinGW actually distribute precompiled Python binaries as well (in
MSYS-DTK).

> - people building extensions to Python must be able to do so with
>   Microsoft C++, since some of these extensions are written using MFC.

MinGW can compile MFC. Download Windows Platform SDK and you get the
MFC source.

> - developing Python itself in Visual Studio is quite convenient; in
>   particular, the debugger works "better" than gdb.

Eclipse is an excellent IDE that works with MinGW.