MinGW and Python

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Ross Ridge wrote:
> I think that having current versions of Python also linked MSVCRT.DLL,
> whether compiled with MinGW or MSVC 6, 7 or 8, could be over all be a
> better solution than using a CRT DLL specific to one version of
> Microsoft's compiler.  It would make it possible to build extentions
> with any version of MSVC, instead of just the one that Python was built
> with.

How would you build for MSVCRT.DLL using MSVC 7 or 8? You don't have
the header files for that library, and you don't have the import
library.

Regards,
Martin