Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > You may want to get in touch with Carl Kleffner -- he's done a bunch > of work lately on getting a mingw-based toolchain to the point where > it can build numpy and scipy.
To build *Python extensions*, one can use Carl's toolchain or the VC9 compiler for Python 2.7 that Microsoft just released. To build *Python* you need Visual Studio, Visual Studio Express, Windows SDK, or Cygwin because there is no other build process available on Windows. Python cannot be built with MinGW. The official 64-bit Python installer from Python.org is built with the Windows SDK compiler, not Visual Studio. The Windows SDK is a free download. The 32-bit installer is built with Visual Studio. Sturla _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
