On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Carl Kleffner <cmkleff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Concerning the claims that mingw is difficult: > > The mingwpy package is a sligthly modified mingw-w64 based gcc toolchain, > that is in development. It is designed for simple use and for much better > compatibility to the standard MSVC python builds. It should work out of the > box, as long as the <Python>\Scripts folder is in the PATH. > Indeed, I tested it with 2.7.9 x86/x64, and wheres before I had to apply at least http://bugs.python.org/issue4709, and http://bugs.python.org/issue16472 and then generate the .a files to get it to work, this worked out of the box! (except of course still needing to change distutils.cfg). I do wonder though, which may be slightly off topic here, whether putting the mingw binary stub files (?) in python/Scripts, rather than directly having python/shared/mingwpy/bin be on the path, is the best approach? I suppose it's no worse than having the other stuff in python/scripts on the path (although with e.g. pip you could do the python -m pip trick). Are there guidelines about this (using python/scripts) for Windows? I didn't see anything mentioned when python -m pip install ... vs. pip install is discussed. Although I hope a 7z version of that mingw will be separately available for those that want to share a copy between versions of python, since the files in share/mingwpy is presumably the same between python versions for a specific bitness? Matt
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