[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-3107919 ] install with mingw issue

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Bugs item #3107919, was opened at 2010-11-12 14:15
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Category: installation
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: gauthier fleutot (fleutotg)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: install with mingw issue

Initial Comment:
I try installing pywin32-214 on a winXP-SP3 machine.
No visual studio 2003 installed.
setup.py install stops  with the following error:

error: Python was built with Visual Studio 2003;
extensions must be built with a compiler than can generate compatible binaries.
Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this system. If you have Cygwin installed,
you can try compiling with MingW32, by passing "-c mingw32" to setup.py.

Since I have mingw installed I tried:

setup.py build -c mingw32

The result is:
Building pywin32 2.5.214.0
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 2152, in <module>
    ('', ('pywin32.pth',)),
  File "C:\Program\python25\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\Program\python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\Program\python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "setup.py", line 596, in run
    build.run(self)
  File "C:\Program\python25\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 112, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "C:\Program\python25\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\Program\python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Program\python25\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 290, in ru
n
    self.build_extensions()
  File "setup.py", line 872, in build_extensions
    self.build_extension(ext)
  File "setup.py", line 1065, in build_extension
    why = self._why_cant_build_extension(ext)
  File "setup.py", line 760, in _why_cant_build_extension
    raise RuntimeError("Can't find a version in Windows.h")
RuntimeError: Can't find a version in Windows.h

I tried to define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT in c:\MinGw\include\Windows.h, to 0x0502, but it did not help.
I read somewhere that there were a binary that can be used, but couldn't find it.

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