[Biopython-dev] Compiling on modern windows (recent mingw)

[Peter Cock]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Tiago Antão <tiagoantao at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to setup a windows 8 buildbot. For that purpose I have
> installed a recent version of mingw on a new win8 machine.
>
> It seems that one of the compiling options of biopython (-mno-cygwin) is
> deprecated. See here for more details:
> http://korbinin.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/cython-mno-cygwin-problems.html

Looks like there's a confusing open bug about just removing this argument
from Python's distutils - http://bugs.python.org/issue12641

For now does the hack of editing Lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py yourself
get it to work? I could live with that on the build slave, coupled with a
warning in our install documentation for the brave people self-compiling
under Windows.

Peter