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Author	lazka
Recipients	eamanu, eryksun, lazka, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, vengelson, zach.ware
Date	2019-08-10.08:16:46
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> I wasn't aware that CPython builds for MSYS2 out of the box, since it's a POSIX-on-Windows platform like Cygwin. Apparently there are patches that enable it to build, since MSYS2 has Python available. MSYS2 consists of a cygwin like environment and a mingw one. OP is trying to build with mingw. MSYS2 contains a somewhat heavily patched Python in both environments so it's expected that building plain CPython doesn't work. There are plans to upstream smaller non-MSYS2 specific patches but nothing has come of it so far.

> I wasn't aware that CPython builds for MSYS2 out of the box, since it's a POSIX-on-Windows platform like Cygwin. Apparently there are patches that enable it to build, since MSYS2 has Python available.

MSYS2 consists of a cygwin like environment and a mingw one. OP is trying to build with mingw.

MSYS2 contains a somewhat heavily patched Python in both environments so it's expected that building plain CPython doesn't work. There are plans to upstream smaller non-MSYS2 specific patches but nothing has come of it so far.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-08-10 08:16:47	lazka	set	recipients: + lazka, paul.moore, tim.golden, zach.ware, eryksun, steve.dower, eamanu, vengelson
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