[issue7131] Extension module build fails for MinGW: missing vcvarsall.bat

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: Thanks for the feedback, this was detected as a regression and fixed in the upcoming 2.6.4 -- resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker _

[issue7131] Extension module build fails for MinGW: missing vcvarsall.bat

New submission from Dieter Verfaillie : Using Python 2.6.3 on Windows XP, distutils fails building an extension module when mingw32 is specified as the compiler. Distutils fails with the error message "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat". Looking back in the subversion history for the distutils build_