Re: [Pyfltk-user] windows executable installer

[Robert A. <ro...@gm...>]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 1:20 AM and...@bl...
<and...@bl...> wrote:
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> Hi Robert
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> I have tried to dig into your problem a little bit and I have come across this wiki page: https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers#GCC_-_MinGW-w64_.28x86.2C_x64.29
> According to that, support for MinGW has been discontinued since Python3.4.
> In any case, even if you get it to compile you will finally have problems linking with the python libs, because they are using a different compiler.

Ok, good to know it wasn't just my incompetence.  Glad you were able
to discover the problem.

> The preferred way of building Pythin extensons on Windows is indeed using the MS compiler. For this you don't really need a Visual Studio license, it is enough to download the buildtools for VS2091: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2019
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> Given the above, I think I will be actually removing the support for Mingw from the setup files. In additon, I will have to work on the documentation to make the build process more clear.
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Ok. I will focus my efforts into using VS2019. Thanks for updating the
build process documentation.