Hi guys,
There has recently (as in, yesterday) been a new flicker of activity in the
mingw-python camp.
For a long time, GCC on Windows was not a usable option for Python without
some pretty big workarounds and hacks to get everything working. The
biggest issue being that you cannot simply build Python extensions with
MinGW(-w64). For that issue, and the flicker of activity, see this bug
report:
http://bugs.python.org/issue4709
Now, it seems that VS2015 is coming with a new "Universal CRT", which will
be what the new Python version supports. Paule Moore, a new Python
contributor, is prepared to help significantly as I understand it, but he
deems support for the new CRT somewhat of a requirement to get streamlined
support for the GCC/Windows/Python combination. What are the chances of
this being added to MinGW-w64 "soon"? I'll be sure to point him to the
python patches located here which can be used as a starting point:
https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python3
https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python2
Additionally, there seem to be some misconceptions as to the number of
different toolchains available, I'll offer to straighten that out with him,
and point him to the official builds we offer here. As to that, is there
any (significant/important) difference between the MSYS2 builds and the
official installer builds?
Cheers,
Ruben
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