1) mingw mingw-get setup tool , will install MinGW by default on C:\MinGW, msys\1.0 is under MinGW, it is the best way to install/upgrade/maintenance msys/mingw basic/core/dev pkg Then I just copy MinGW excluding msys to \mingw as portable mingw, which including latest gcc 4.8.1-4 . 2) msys I didn’t use …
I have own Python 2.7.5 and own mingw/gcc, want to build kivy 1.8.0 dev from source. When you follow up instruction from section: http://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-windows.html Using an exisiting Python installation (64/32 bit) Always got gcc link failure, C:\portableapps\mingw\bin\gcc.exe -mno-cygwin -shared -s c:\users\\appdata\local\temp\pip-tatybd-build\kivy\graphics\texture.o c:\users\\appdata\local\temp\pip-tatybd-build\kivy\graphics\texture.def -LC:\Python27\libs -LC:\Python27\PCbuild -lopengl32 -lglew32 -lpython27 -lmsvcr90 -o build\lib.win32-2.7\kivy\graphics\texture.pyd …
When you hit this gcc error during some python installation: error: command ‘gcc’ failed with exit status 1 You should consider replace your gcc, this is good option here: https://github.com/develersrl/gccwinbinaries •GCC 4.3.3-tdm-1 (http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/) •binutils 2.19.1 •mingw32-make 3.81-2 •mingwrt 3.16 •w32api 3.13
For scripting, we would like to have own dev and test environment. If you prefer do everything from command line and hate MS famous DOS terminal like me, this is solution for you – lightweight *NIX shell on windows. Let’s go. 1) setup *NIX like environment – msys + MinGW …