Victor Stinner <victor.stinner <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, > > Windows is not the primary target of Python developers, probably > because most of them work on Linux. Official Python binaries are > currently built by Microsoft Visual Studio. Even if Python developers > get free licenses thanks for Microsoft, I would prefer to use an open > source compiler if it would be possible. > > === Other compilers? >
I'm happily using MSYS2 (sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/), which handles Python and many Python and GNOME related projects using the mingw64 compiler (which can target 32 and 64 bit). MSYS2 provides a POSIX like environment to build native applications on windows (using the win32 api). It features a source level package manager, pacman, ported from ArchLinux, so lots of *nix applications and libraries are available (see https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages and also https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/ for core libs and apps). I've used it with success in apps that use Python + GTK+3 + Numpy + SciPy + Matplotlib. Hope this information is useful. Regards, Rafael _______________________________________________ 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
