Martin v. Löwis wrote: > - there is no build process available to do that
In MSYS: $ ./configure --prefix=/c/mingw $ make $ make install This should be obvious to any with Unix experience. MinGW actually distribute precompiled Python binaries as well (in MSYS-DTK). > - people building extensions to Python must be able to do so with > Microsoft C++, since some of these extensions are written using MFC. MinGW can compile MFC. Download Windows Platform SDK and you get the MFC source. > - developing Python itself in Visual Studio is quite convenient; in > particular, the debugger works "better" than gdb. Eclipse is an excellent IDE that works with MinGW. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
