Python-MinGW

Python-MinGW is a set of patches to the python source distribution that can be used to build a Win32 version of python using 'configure' and 'make'. It requires Cygwin to provide a unix-like build environment and the MinGW compiler toolchain for generation of win32 executables.

The companion Makefiles package will download and compile the zlib, bzip2, openssl, gdbm, and sqlite libraries. The package can also download and build a number of other python modules after the python build is complete. In addition to driving the win32 build, it is useful for downloading, building, and installing the add-on pieces when building on Linux.

If you're trying to find pre-compiled binaries for Windows, you should look at http://www.python.org/ .

Three classes of users may find this package useful:

• Windows developers who want to compile python themselves but don't have a Microsoft environment available;
• People building on windows who prefer a to use configure/make to a microsoft project file;
• Linux users who want a convenient way to build python and many of the add-on pieces;

Latest Releases

The latest release of the packages are:

python-mingw

2.5.1v2, 12/4/2007

makefiles

2.5.1v2.0, 12/7/2007

Download

You can download these packages from: SourceForge .

Installation

You can find system requirements and instructions for building python using these packages on the Installation page.