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

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Wed Aug 11 19:49:43 CEST 2010


On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 03:21:15PM +0200, Sturla Molden wrote:

"David Cournapeau": > Autotools only help for posix-like platforms. They are certainly a big > hindrance on windows platform in general, That is why mingw has MSYS. mingw is not just a gcc port, but also a miniature gnu environment for windows. MSYS' bash shell allows us to do things like: $ ./configure $ make && make install

Sturla

I will try to compile the python-svn trunk then by using the autotools plus tdm-gcc (a mingw fork) as well as MSYS. I might try to report any errors back to the autotools list and sort out with them what is happening.

Gabriel



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