Python extensions for Win64 via GCC

Question

Has anyone had any luck with compiling 64-bit Python extension modules for Windows using mingw64?

I have successfully compiled the extension in question with VS2008

Answer 1

I find you need to define MS_WIN64 as well as WIN32, also the distutils package does not understand mingw64, see this post, and this one

Patching distutils to support mingw64 is fairly trivial.