[issue13260] distutils and cross-compiling the extensions

2011-10-25 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: Hi Alexander, Thanks for your interest in improving Python. I’m forced to reject your request because - Python 2.7 does not get new features (and support for cross-compilation would be one). - distutils does not get new features (we had to freeze it because i

[issue13260] distutils and cross-compiling the extensions

2011-10-24 Thread Alexander Myodov
New submission from Alexander Myodov : I was recently trying to cross-compile several extensions (host: Linux, target: Win32) using mingw-gcc, and noticed that there is quite a little amount of changes needed to distutils code to at least make proper win32-compabible modules. Some of them req