[Distutils] Re: A bit o' help on creating a distribution with MingW32

[Scott David Daniels]

Thomas Heller wrote:
> Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> writes:
>>I am having a bit of trouble creating a windows distributable
>>with a C module using MingW32.  While I can do:
 >>         python setup.py build --compile=mingw32
 >>         python setup.py bdist_wininst --skip-build
 >>I get an executable with no tag for the particular python version.
> 
> You could use command chaining, if that's the correct word for that:
> python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 bdist_wininst

This does the trick, both for using the mingw32 compiler, and for
tagging the result with the python version.  Thanks for the help.

-- Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org