ming on win32 anyone ? [help a noob]

[daz.diamond]

kyosohma at gmail.com wrote:
> On Aug 15, 9:46 am, "programmer... at gmail.com"
> <programmer... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Aug 15, 8:03 am, "daz.diamond" <s... at spam.com> wrote:
>>
>>> hoping someone can help ...
>>> how do I install ming (with python) on win32? have downloaded the tar.gz
>>> of ming-0.3.0 which doesn't have a handy self-installer, and I'm
>>> absolutely foxed as to what to do next ... the install instructions in
>>> the package seem to be linux oriented, which to me may as well be in greek
>>> any clues much appreciated, thx
>>> daz
>> I don't know what you've downloaded, but it does not sound like the
>> right thing, err ming.  The installer found here is 5.1.3.http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435
>>
>> Maybe you should consider cygwin?
>>
>> jw
> 
> I think the OP is referring to this: http://ming.sourceforge.net/
> 
> If so, it looks like it needs manual compilation using a C/C++
> compiler of some sort.
> 
> Mike
> 

yup, ming as in the ability to make swf files ... got it running with 
php no problem, but python seems another story ...
manual compilation using c/c++ sounds complicated - is this the sort of 
thing i could do without knowledge of c/c++ or am i just barking at 
lamp-posts ?

thx
daz