MinGW and Python

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Ross Ridge wrote:
> Not exactly.  They're both GCC, but the MinGW compiler that you can
> download from MinGW WWW site is a native Win32 appliction, while the
> "MinGW" compiler included with Cygwin and invoked by "-mno-cygwin" is a
> Cygwin application.

Any Cygwin application is a native Win32 application, which just happens
to link with cygwin1.dll (which also is a native Win32 DLL).

Just to make that clear: Everything that cygwin does is done solely with
the Win32 API. The C library differs in semantics from the MS C library,
but the system API is just the same.

Regards,
Martin