On 07/06/2010 05:50 PM, sturlamolden wrote: > It is possible to build C and Fortran extensions for official Python > 2.6/2.7 binaries on x86 using mingw. AFAIK, Microsoft's compiler is > required for C++ or amd64 though. (Intel's compiler requires VS2008, > which has now perished.)
mingw gcc should work for building C++ extensions if it also works for C extensions. There's no difference on the binding side - you simply have to include everything as extern "C", which I am sure the header does for you. As for amd64 - I do not know if there is a mingw64 release for windows already. If there isn't, there should be ;-) But that doesn't really change anything: the express edition of Microsoft's VC++ doesn't include an amd64 compiler anyway, AFAIK. Also, VS2010 should work as well - doesn't it? > > Remember Python on Windows will still require VS2008 for a long time. > Just take a look at the recent Python 3 loath threads. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list