mingw-w64 might be a small change. But while one is it at, it might make sense to evaluate: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MSVCCompatibility.html Apparently clang on Windows is working on calling convention compatibility with Visual Studio.
On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 8:37 PM <ucod...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/XIWF3OYL7OQRBVRBBQCBKPPJH5OKVVRC/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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