How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Michael Torrie]

On 05/17/2017 04:32 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 8:21 AM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
>> My own approach with the standard library is that I just use what is
>> provided by the OS (so msvcrt.dll or libc.so.6).
>>
>> I expect Tiny C does the same as it doesn't appear to come with any
>> libraries of its own.
> 
> Well, msvcrt.dll isn't the whole thing. You need the compilation end
> of that too (header files and static libraries). Where are you going
> to get those from? Oh right. The dev version of msvcrt.dll is in....
> Visual Studio.

Looks like TCC comes with a full set of headers for msvcrt as well as
win32.

So if you can build Cpython with mingw gcc, you should be able to just
tell configure to use tcc in the msys environment and see what happens.