Brian Elmegaard wrote: > What I don't understand is that it is not possible to distribute a > python compiled with gcc for windows. The main reason I saw in this > thread is that python uses mfc. So python requires api access, I > guess.
You misunderstood. Python does not use MFC. PythonWin (for example) does. That has a lot of implications which are hard to understand if you are not familiar with Windows programming and the C library mess on Windows. It would certainly be possible to distribute a gcc-compiled python. However, what is the point in doing so? Cygwin already includes a gcc-compiled Python, for Windows: http://cygwin.com/packages/python/ > Once I asked about distutils here. The answer was that I had access to > the source so I could just extend it. After messing around I found I > couldn't because I don't have msvc. That is simply not true. You can build the entire Python interpreter with Cygwin (but you don't need to, because there is a precompiled version), and you can build extensions for the python.org binary using MingW. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
