Python, VC++, and Mingw32

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Fri Aug 11 01:47:41 EDT 2000


> Heck, it doesn't even come with makefiles that work with Microsoft's
> compiler!  It ships with MS project files instead, as the Python developers
> actually use the MS IDE to build Python.

And this was a wise move, IMO. While the free software compilers
are indeed nice, the single most used cpp compiler under windows
is, plainly, VC. It's not for the developers of python to evangelize
anything but python, IMO.


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