Dulwich C extensions and stand-alone Windows installation of bzr

Martin (gzlist) gzlist at googlemail.com
Sun Sep 4 16:41:04 UTC 2011


On 04/09/2011, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Not only that, the fact that I need MSVC is in itself a problem: it's
> a proprietary tool.  I use MinGW GCC.  (I'm surprised MSVC is used to
> build binaries of a GNU project.)

Python isn't a GNU project, and dulwich just uses the distutils like
everything else does. It's possible to build Python extensions with
other compilers, I was just trying to give you the shortest
instructions to solve your problem. Feel free read the documentation
on using mingw instead.

Martin



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