MinGW and Python

[Brian Elmegaard]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> It would certainly be possible to distribute a gcc-compiled python.
> However, what is the point in doing so? Cygwin already includes
> a gcc-compiled Python, for Windows:

Interesting.

> That is simply not true. 

Actually, you answered me then too. I misunderstood after reading
http://sebsauvage.net/python/mingw.html.

Is the information on that page not correct? Has it never been? 

> You can build the entire Python interpreter with Cygwin (but you
> don't need to, because there is a precompiled version), and you can
> build extensions for the python.org binary using MingW.

Great, then I tend to agree that there is no reason for building it
with mingw.


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