[noway@xxxxxx: [ANN] GCC 4.1.2 installer for Python distutils compilation]

Hi folks, 

may the below be a good solution to building win extensions? 
I wouldn't like to test this on my "just-got-vs2003 to run"
laptop, so i'd prefer someone else can give it a try. 
If i interpret the announcement right it should produce
extensions that are usable for downloaded CPython windows
binaries.  Would someone give this a try and report back? 

best, 

    holger


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Subject: [ANN] GCC 4.1.2 installer for Python distutils compilation
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 03:08:03 +0100
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Hello,

This page:
   http://www.develer.com/oss/GccWinBinaries

contains a friendly Windows installer for GCC 4.1.2 (MinGW binary version), 
with full support for integrating it with Python installations so that it is 
used by distutils to compile Python extensions.


Direct download link:
   http://www.develer.com/~rasky/gcc-4.1.2-mingw-setup.exe


Who needs this package?

  * People who wants to use FLOSS tools to develop Python extensions.
  * People who wants to use the recent GCC 4.1.2 to develop Python extensions, 
given that it easily outperforms the 4-years-old Visual Studio .NET 2003.


What's special about this?

  * mingw.org still has GCC 3.4.2, so go figure. Also, you need to compose 
other packages together. This is a single installer with everything inside.
  * By default, MinGW GCC links with MSVCRT.DLL, and not MSVCR71.DLL (used by 
Python 2.4 and 2.5). Fixing this is pretty complicate, and there's much 
confusion (Google turns up red herrings). This package handles everything for 
you, and it just works.

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