New submission from Jean-Paul Calderone <exar...@divmod.com>: Per issue3308, it is not really possible to build Python extensions with MinGW anymore (as far as I can tell). The distutils documentation is misleading in this regard, as is the continued existence of the build_ext --compiler=mingw32 option. The result of using this feature is a dll which cannot actually be loaded.
If my understanding of the issue is correct, then the mingw32 compiler should be removed from distutils and the documentation corrected to indicate the lack of support for this compiler toolchain. ---------- assignee: tarek components: Distutils, Documentation, Library (Lib), Windows messages: 87660 nosy: exarkun, tarek severity: normal status: open title: distutils tricks you into thinking you can build extensions with mingw versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6007> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
