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To let Distutils compile your extension with Cygwin you now have to type ::
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python setup.py build --compiler=cygwin
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and for Cygwin in no-cygwin mode [#]_ or for MinGW type::
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python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32
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If you want to use any of these options/compilers as default, you should consider to write it in your personal or system-wide configuration file for Distutils (see section :ref:`inst-config-files`.)
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Information about building the required libraries for the MinGW environment.
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Footnotes
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This also means you could replace all existing COFF-libraries with OMF-libraries of the same name.
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Check http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ and http://www.mingw.org/ for more information
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Then you have no POSIX emulation available, but you also don't need :file:`cygwin1.dll`.