Download Microsoft C/C++ compiler for use with Python 2.6/2.7 ASAP

[David Cournapeau]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:

>
> I would suggest that people try to build their native extension
> modules with mingw, and if it doesn't work report a bug (to mingw
> project and to the Python project) so that we can track more precisely
> what the issues are.

To be clear, building extensions with mingw for the official python
works well. Numpy and scipy official binaries have been built with
mingw for years. There are problems for 64 bits binaries, though

David