On 27 October 2014 20:45, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >> That assumption will allow MinGW-w64 to link with the appropriate >> MSVCRT versions for extention building without anything breaking. > > > If that works, then the same technique should allow CPython > itself to be built in a VS-compatible way with mingw, > shouldn't it?
Yes. > Those objecting to a mingw-built python seem to be assuming > that such a thing will necessarily be incompatible with > VS builds, but I don't see why that has to be the case. No, we've been trying to establish whether the patches to build with mingw were intended to produce such a compatible build. It's not clear, but so far it seems that apparently that is *not* the intent (and worse, mingw-w64 may not even be able to build viable executables that link with msvcr100 without some heavy hacking, although that's still somewhat unclear). Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
