Old change (probably suggested by Jason Tishler) The GNU/Windows compiler is now called MinGW

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Andrew M. Kuchling 2002-11-06 14:34:50 +00:00
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@ -989,18 +989,17 @@ for Distutils (see section~\ref{config-files}.)
\end{seealso}
\subsubsection{GNU C / Cygwin / MinGW32}
\subsubsection{GNU C / Cygwin / MinGW}
This section describes the necessary steps to use Distutils with the
GNU C/\Cpp{} compilers in their Cygwin and MinGW32
GNU C/\Cpp{} compilers in their Cygwin and MinGW
distributions.\footnote{Check
\url{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/} and
\url{http://www.mingw.org/} for more information}
For a Python interpreter that was built with Cygwin, everything should
work without any of these following steps.
\XXX{For a Python which was built with Cygwin, all should work without
any of these following steps.}
These compilers also require some special libraries.
These compilers require some special libraries.
This task is more complex than for Borland's \Cpp, because there is no
program to convert the library.
% I don't understand what the next line means. --amk
@ -1038,7 +1037,7 @@ python setup.py build --compiler=cygwin
and for Cygwin in no-cygwin mode\footnote{Then you have no
\POSIX{} emulation available, but you also don't need
\file{cygwin1.dll}.} or for MinGW32 type:
\file{cygwin1.dll}.} or for MinGW type:
\begin{verbatim}
python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32
@ -1050,12 +1049,12 @@ for Distutils (see section~\ref{config-files}.)
\begin{seealso}
\seetitle[http://www.zope.org/Members/als/tips/win32_mingw_modules]
{Building Python modules on MS Windows platform with MinGW32}
{Information about building the required libraries for the MinGW32
{Building Python modules on MS Windows platform with MinGW}
{Information about building the required libraries for the MinGW
environment.}
\seeurl{http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/ftp/win32-stuff/}
{Converted import libraries in Cygwin/MinGW32 and Borland format,
{Converted import libraries in Cygwin/MinGW and Borland format,
and a script to create the registry entries needed for Distutils
to locate the built Python.}
\end{seealso}