GCC-compiled pywin32

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Could we have a GCC-compiled pywin32? It would be awesome for Cygwin users.

Reported by: khalak

Original Ticket: pywin32/feature-requests/102

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Patches welcome!

Original comment by: mhammond

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• priority: 5 --> 6

Original comment by: khalak

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any ideas what to look at?

Original comment by: khalak

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I guess you'd first work out what support distutils has for building with GCC on Windows, then you'd look at setup.py to see how you would adapt that. Personally I've never used GCC on Windows and have no idea why anyone would want to, so have no interest in this whatsoever.

Original comment by: mhammond

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ok, distutils supports 'cygwinccompiler', and just for the record: GCC is heavily used in Cygwin (no 'msvc9compiler' whatsoever), and offers an additional Unix-like compatibility layer, what in turn opens a wide gate for Unix-like programs to run them on Windows with no or little code modification. That is, Cygwin+GCC => Windows+Unix (and you still can compile Windows-only programs with MSVC, and maybe, just may-be, run them on Unix also)

Original comment by: khalak

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https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/deprecated/distutils/apiref.html#module-distutils.cygwinccompiler
note that distutils is removed from Python 3.12 and usage with setuptools is deprecated #2119

Related to #764
Closing in favor of #1378 which has more modern discussions