How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> (The GMP library, for example, has no official binary releases. You have
>> to build from source,
>
>
> So using it on Windows isn't supported very well. This is
> in contrast to Python, for which a pretty comprehensive set
> of Windows binaries *is* available.
>

It's more that people on Windows don't tend to "install GMP". They
install program XYZ, which creates a window on the screen. The
assumption is that it will include all the DLLs that it needs.

ChrisA