Introducing TruFont

Posted Apr 30, 2016 13:17 UTC (Sat) by lsl (subscriber, #86508)
In reply to: Introducing TruFont by halla
Parent article: Introducing TruFont

CPython upstream only supports Windows builds with MSVC. There's a gigantic patch set on Github to make it work with MinGW[1].

It's all in the link given by liam (to which you replied, so I thought you've seen that). A more specific account of the problems involved can be gained from the FESCo meeting logs[2], starting at 18:13:07.

The inability to cross-compile python from source using a Free Software toolchain means that the next Fedora release won't come with an official Live Media Creator for Windows. Incorporating such huge patch sets with no chance of upstream acceptance is obviously not acceptable to Fedora.

[1] https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/min...
[2] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-04-...

Introducing TruFont

Posted May 23, 2016 13:55 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> CPython upstream only supports Windows builds with MSVC.

Even worse, the version of MSVC is dictated too. Importing into newer versions fail spectacularly. For example, Python2 is either MSVC 2008 or roll your own (there are CMake buildsystems out there to be able to build for other compilers, but no one has made them on feature parity with upstream AFAIK).