Greetings, - -! > I use PyCharm for Python programming and installing packages. PyCharm uses > the pip command to install any package. I recently needed to install a > package that needs to be build. I learned that I needed to install cygwin in > that case.
Not only Cygwin, then, but also Python provided by Cygwin. > Here is the deal: > I try to install a package that needs to be build > and end up with this error message (64 and 32 bit) > --- > D:\Programme\cygwin64\bin\gcc.exe -mcygwin -mdll -O -Wall -IC:\Users\... > gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mcygwin’ That's a LONG time ago abandoned option. Years long. > --- > D:\Programme\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe -mcygwin -mdll -O -Wall -IC:\Users\... > gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mcygwin’ > Please help, Google returns nothing regarding that error! I feel like I am > the only person in the world with that error :( That's quite possible. Because, see above. If you have a Linux guide to compile the extension, try following that one. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 20.03.2014, <20:03> Sorry for my terrible english...