Dan Yeaw added the comment:
lazka: Thanks for you response. You are correct, the issue was that I had a pip
installed version of setuptools somehow. It sounds like you think that all
issues should go downstream to fixing them in the MINGW-packages. I am OK with
this, it just seams like there
Christoph Reiter added the comment:
MSYS2 patches setuptools to work with GCC and the MSYS2 Python, so you can't
use setuptools as is from pip.
See
https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python-setuptools
for the current set of patches.
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nosy: +lazka
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New submission from Dan Yeaw :
I am using the mingw-w64-x86_64-python3 in MSYS2 on Windows to package a
PyGObject app. When I try to pip install the app, I am getting errors about the
VC 6.0 isn't supported.
It looks like setuptools is trying to patch distutils msvc. The msvc9compiler
module
