[issue1597850] Cross compiling patches for MINGW

2013-02-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Han-Wen Nienhuys added the comment: yeah, whatever. (only 7 years to close an issue. Yay for open-source.) -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1

[issue1597850] Cross compiling patches for MINGW

2008-10-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: @Luke the compiling strategy for Python (IIRC) is to compile everything, including modules that will never work, and use compiler errors as a signal to not include a module in the result. this is what I end up with for 2.4 ./u

[issue1597850] Cross compiling patches for MINGW

2008-10-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I'm still interested in this, but the last time I did anything, I jumped through all the hoops (see conversation here), and not a single change was put into trunk. I'm not very enthousiastic about spending a lot ti