"Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Well, you are not compiling with neither mingw, nor cygwin; you are > compiling with gcc in either case.
touche, mr. pedant. :) > Well, there is no native C library on Microsoft Windows: the system > simply doesn't include an official C library (I know there is crtdll.dll > and msvcrt.dll, but these aren't "endorsed" system C libraries). don't know what you mean by "endorsed". does it lack features of the C89 ANSI standard? > For Windows, that would require not to use any of the standard C > functionality, since the system doesn't provide that functionality out > of the box. That would be a problem then. So what happens when you compile python with msvc, and why can't mingw just replicate that? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
