Dan added the comment: Guys, this looks really bad and inconveniences a lot of users. You install the latest MinGW and Distutils from their default location, try using them on **anything that requires compilation**, and get the cryptic gcc -mno-cygwin error (after having to edit the obscure distutils.cfg, of course).
Aren't Python / distutils supposed to be cross-platform? It's already hard enough to find distutils / pip setup instructions for Windows, shouldn't they at least **work**? After removing -mno-cygwin from cygwincompiler.py, I get another obscure -mdll error. This is ridiculous. If you can't agree on a patch that detects both new and old compilers, can't you split cygwincompiler.py into several versions, or somehow provide separate mingw32-old and mingw32-new options? ---------- nosy: +danmbox _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12641> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
