On 28 February 2013 00:46, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > I apologise if I have misunderstood as I don't understand these things > that well. But as someone who uses mingw on Windows (when I am on > Windows) I have a question. What if I build with mingw on my computer > and then upload to PyPI? Is it guaranteed that if my built version is > compatible with standard MSVC-compiled Python x.y on my Windows > machine then it also compatible with (standard) Python x.y on other > Windows machines.
Yes. Unless you build your own Python *interpreter* with a different compiler, you should have no issues. > Perhaps not relevant but currently building extensions with mingw > requires patching distutils (It's been a while since I actually did > this because it's already done on all my computers but the bug for it > is here http://bugs.python.org/issue12641). Yes, that is relevant, to the extent that distutils is what sets the flags for mingw to ensure a compatible C runtime. If you patch distutils, you run the risk of breaking that (it's the -lmsvcrXX flag that matters). The patch you refer to will not cause issues, though. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
