Dulwich C extensions and stand-alone Windows installation of bzr

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:09:40 +0300
> From: Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org>, Bazaar <bazaar at lists.canonical.com>
> 
> Martin Pool пишет:
> > I hope we don't get into a "what is reasonable" debate, because there
> > are a lot of things about Windows development that are not reasonable,
> > and also not under our control.
> > 
> > I believe the technical facts are:
> > 
> >  * you can't use cygwin or mingw gcc to build extensions for a Python
> > built with msvc
> 
> I don't think it's true. At least for Python 2.5 it was possible to 
> build python c-extensions with mingw.

I'm not surprised.  AFAIK, MinGW is fully compatible with MSVC in this
regard, if not by default, then with the -mms-bitfields command-line
option.