Cournapeau David <da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> added the comment: I think compiling python itself with it would be quite difficult - I have never attempted it. My 'scenario' is building extensions against the official python for amd64 on windows.
The quickest way to test the patch would be as follows: - take a native toolchain (by native, I mean runs on and target 64 bits windows subsystem - I have not tested cross compilation, or even using 32 bits toolchain on WoW). The one from equations.com is recent and runs well: http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?call=fortran - builds a hello-world like python extension from the command line: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/MicrosoftToolchainSupport (I am sorry, the wiki page is bit messy, I will clean it up). Since we use our own distutils extensions in numpy, I don't know how much is needed for support at the stdlib distutils level. If that's something which sounds interesting to python itself, I am willing to add support in python proper for mingw-w64. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4709> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
