Commit 58d6a7d7 authored by da-woods's avatar da-woods Committed by GitHub

Update docs to recommend using MSVC on Windows (GH-4345)

See https://github.com/cython/cython/pull/4142#issuecomment-831464115

I don't think MinGW has worked since around Python 3.4 (but I'm
not completely confident in that) while I know that MSVC does
work. Therefore we should recommend that.
parent bad93a3a
......@@ -22,13 +22,16 @@ according to the system used:
XCode, which can be retrieved from the Mac OS X's install DVDs or
from https://developer.apple.com/.
- **Windows** A popular option is to use the open source MinGW (a
- **Windows** The CPython project recommends building extension modules
(including Cython modules) with the same compiler that Python was
built with. This is usually a specific version of Microsoft Visual
C/C++ (MSVC) - see https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers.
MSVC is the only compiler that Cython is currently tested with on
Windows. A possible alternative is the open source MinGW (a
Windows distribution of gcc). See the appendix for instructions for
setting up MinGW manually. Enthought Canopy and Python(x,y) bundle
MinGW, but some of the configuration steps in the appendix might
still be necessary. Another option is to use Microsoft Visual C/C++
(MSVC). One must then use the same version which the installed Python was
compiled with.
still be necessary.
.. dagss tried other forms of ReST lists and they didn't look nice
.. with rst2latex.
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