Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: >> I think this is exaggerating the actual state. The compiler is >> certainly supported. > > Can you elaborate on what "supported" means? To me, it would mean that > it could build all the same Python extensions which MSVC can build.
"Supported" means that it will invoke the compiler with the right command line arguments. It can't possibly mean what you suggest: gcc simply cannot compile all code that MSVC can compile - in particular, will will not support many of the VC extensions to C that a Python extension module may use. COM interfaces are particularly difficult, making it fail on, e.g. PyWin32. This was always the case, and never stopped people contributing mingw support. ---------- title: distutils tricks you into thinking you can build extensions with mingw -> distutils tricks you into thinking you can build extensions with mingw _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6007> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
