[Python-Dev] mingw support? (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Aug 8 21:54:44 CEST 2010

On 8/7/2010 3:55 PM, linux at gabriel-striewe.de wrote:

Dear list,

I was wondering whether there would ever be support for python to be build by the mingw compiler suite. I found a few patches in the internet but there were disagreeing comments on whether they are functional or not. So I would like to ask the list whether there are any technical reasons that this is so.

The sociological problem is that currently not enough advocates of using a free-as-in-thought compiler both can and will provide enough free-as-in-beer volunteer time to deal with the sociological and technical problems. That could change someday.

I suspect that the persons who first ported Python to MSDOS simply used what they were used to using, perhaps in their paid job. And I am sure that is still true of at least some of the people doing Windows support today.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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