I think perhaps we should admit that this build system is no longer supported.
From everything I can tell, the mingw project is no longer maintained. The
project's site, mingw.org, is no longer live; the project on sourceforge,
although still downloaded daily, had its last commit almost 3 years ago - a
commit which changed the official project URI to a new link that now is also
dead.
Looking over BPO there are a little over 50 bugs open against mingw, but only 7
that have any meaningful activity within the last three years. Three of those
issues explicitly mention mingw-w64 which is an active fork of the original
mingw project (active homepage, commits almost daily, new release within the
last 6 months) and I wonder if this is the project the other 4 projects meant
by "mingw"?
Ideally any features and flags in the code base for mingw would be checked to
already be working with mingw-w64 or else modified to work, but this would
require a sponsor for this platform, which appears to be missing. Further,
there is no buildbot for mingw, which should be a requirement to be a fully
supported platform, as per this PEP. This potential work appears non-trivial
with a cursory look at the mingw-w64-python pacman project, which contains
close to 100 patch files. I am purposing instead that mingw be deprecated and,
if a sponsor comes along, mingw-w64 can become re-supported, or newly supported
depending on you point of view, as allowed by the PEP.
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