MinGW and Python

[Philippe Martin]

This might relevant.

http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=153

Philippe



Robert Kern wrote:

> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Srijit Kumar Bhadra wrote:
>> 
>>>Is there any specific reason for not using MinGW to build the official
>>>distribution of Python for Win32?
>> 
>> What could be the reasons to use MinGW?
>> 
>> As for reasons not to do that:
>> - there is no build process available to do that
>> - people building extensions to Python must be able to do so with
>>   Microsoft C++, since some of these extensions are written using MFC.
>> - developing Python itself in Visual Studio is quite convenient; in
>>   particular, the debugger works "better" than gdb.
> 
> - gcc does not optimize particularly well.
> 
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