[issue23246] distutils fails to locate vcvarsall with Visual C++ Compiler for Python

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower added the comment:

Python does not support being built with MinGW, but we have "support" to build extensions with MinGW. It isn't great support, and we're open to patches/contributions (none of our core Windows devs use MinGW AFAIK).

And yes, VC is different from MinGW because MinGW is trying to copy a different operating system. Where possible, Python generally tries to follow the conventions of the underlying operating system, which is why we build with VC and not gcc on Windows.

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