Carl Kleffner added the comment:
The situation is not THAT bad. You can install a prerelease of mingwpy with pip:
pip install -i https://pypi.anaconda.org/carlkl/simple mingwpy
or with conda: (thanks to omnia-md)
conda install -c https://conda.anaconda.org/omnia mingwpy
It is not hosted
Carl Kleffner added the comment:
> Windows itself is the primary user of msvcrt.dll.
> A Windows 7 installation has over 1500 DLLs and over
> 350 executables in System32 that depend on msvcrt.dll.
> Windows developers such as Raymond Chen get a bit annoyed
> when projects lin
Carl Kleffner added the comment:
I experienced this behaviour by accident several times. Most likely this is due
to inconsistenticies in different binutils and mingw-runtime versions/patches.
See i.e. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.binutils/46799
A robust solution is to exclusively
Carl Kleffner added the comment:
The most robust way to support a specific mingw-w64 distribution is to copy a
python import library generated by this specific toolchain and the provided
import library for the corresponding msvcrXX.dll runtime into the libs folder.
This has to be performed by