MinGW and Python

[Edward Elliott]

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> Well, you are not compiling with neither mingw, nor cygwin; you are
> compiling with gcc in either case.

touche, mr. pedant. :)

> Well, there is no native C library on Microsoft Windows: the system
> simply doesn't include an official C library (I know there is crtdll.dll
> and msvcrt.dll, but these aren't "endorsed" system C libraries).

don't know what you mean by "endorsed".  does it lack features of the C89
ANSI standard?
 
> For Windows, that would require not to use any of the standard C
> functionality, since the system doesn't provide that functionality out
> of the box. 

That would be a problem then.  So what happens when you compile python with
msvc, and why can't mingw just replicate that?