; compilation is more useful than native mingw build alone - there are
> patches for cross compilation, but I don't know their current status,
>
> cheers,
>
> David
My argument goes that one of the biggest differences between the
GNU/Linux and the Windows way of computing is the barr
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 03:21:15PM +0200, Sturla Molden wrote:
>
> "David Cournapeau":
> > Autotools only help for posix-like platforms. They are certainly a big
> > hindrance on windows platform in general,
>
> That is why mingw has MSYS.
>
> mingw is not just a gcc port, but also a miniature g
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:55:29PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/9/2010 2:47 PM, Sturla Molden wrote:
> >> Terry Reedy:
> >
> >> MingW has become less attractive in recent years by the difficulty
> >> in downloading and installing a current version and finding out how to
> >> do so. Some pro
Dear list,
I was wondering whether there would ever be support for python to be
build by the mingw compiler suite. I found a few patches in the
internet but there were disagreeing comments on whether they are
functional or not.
So I would like to ask the list whether there are any technical
reas
