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

David Cournapeau cournape at gmail.com
Tue Aug 10 18:23:31 CEST 2010

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:06 PM, <linux at gabriel-striewe.de> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:55:29PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:

On 8/9/2010 2:47 PM, Sturla Molden wrote: >> Terry Reedy: > >>     MingW has become less attractive in recent years by the difficulty >> in downloading and installing a current version and finding out how to >> do so. Some projects have moved on to the TDM packaging of MingW. >> >> http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/

Someone else deserves credit for writing that and giving that link ;-) Yes, that was a great link, thanks. It works fine for me. The reason I was bringing up this topic again was that I think the gnu autotools have been made for exactly this purpose, to port software to different platforms,

Autotools only help for posix-like platforms. They are certainly a big hindrance on windows platform in general,

cheers,

David

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