Building SchoolTool extension modules on Windows with MinGW =========================================================== Download and install MinGW from http://www.mingw.org/ (MinGW-*.exe will do) Follow the instructions in the Distutils manual, section 6.2.2 (Using non-Microsoft compilers on Windows: GNU C / Cygwin / MinGW): http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/ http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/tweak-flags.html#SECTION000622000000000000000 Add mingw32 to your %PATH% if needed (e.g. `set PATH=%PATH%;c:\mingw\bin`) before executing `setup.py build --compiler=mingw32`. You should now have a bunch of .pyd files in the build\lib.win32-2.3 directory. Copy the contents of this directory on top of the src directory to get a working installation. The directory can also be compressed as it is for easy distribution.