progress: compiling python2.5 under msys (specifically but not exclusively under wine) with msvcr80

[Roumen Petrov]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
>> i look forward to seeing the same incremental improvement applied to
>> the development of python, evidence of which would be clearly seen by
>> the acceptance of one of the following patches, one of which is dated
>> 2003:
> 
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue841454
> 
> Against 2.3, rejected due to dependence on SCons.
> Also appears to have been incomplete, needing more work.
No it was complete but use SCons. Most of changes changes in code you 
will see again in 3871.

>> http://bugs.python.org/issue3754
> 
> Open by Roumen Petrov, no review, see below.

This is again request and the patch is for trunk. It share common idea with
841454:Cross building python for mingw32:Andreas Ames (yxcv):2003-11-13 
14:31
1006238:Cross compile patch:Daniel Goertzen (goertzen):2004-08-09 22:05
1597850:Cross compiling patches for MINGW hanwen:2006-11-16 16:57


>> http://bugs.python.org/issue3871
> 
> Open, from same submitter, only (minor) review by you.
> Does this supercede 3754?
No. It share common changes to code with 841454, 1006238, 1412448, 
1597850. May be 1597850 and 3871 supercede 1412448.

The issue3871 raise questions (and include solution/work around) related to:
2942 - mingw/cygwin do not accept asm file as extension source
2445 - Use The CygwinCCompiler Under Cygwin
1706863 - Failed to build Python 2.5.1 with sqlite3

Also issues related to LDFLAGS:
4010 - configure options don't trickle down to distutils
1628484 - Python 2.5 64 bit compile fails on Solaris 10/gcc 4.1.1

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