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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"In the pythonxy 2.7.9.0, the MinGW -mno-cygwin bug appears again","articleBody":"```\n1. 2.7.9.0\n2. Recommended setup + MinGW as additional plugin\n3. Not customized\n5. default path\n6. For \"All users\"\n7. Windows 7\n8. No\n9. a regular user\n10. simply by double-clicking on the installer\n11. you uninstalled any previous Python distribution (including the\nofficial .msi)\n\nWhat steps will reproduce the problem?\n1. Try to run something that uses distutils/mingw\n\nExpected output: it compiles. Result: MinGW complains about not knowing \n\"-mno-cygwin\"\n\nThe exact error occurs in the version detection in cygwincompiler.py. The lines:\n\n  out = os.popen(gcc_exe + ' -dumpversion', 'r')\n  out_string = out.read()\n\nreturn out_string = None leading to a gcc_version of None, that is seen as \u003c \n'4' and so the cygwin switch is added.\n\nThis doesn't seem to have changed since 2.7.8, so presumably something else \nhappened that broke the version detection or earlier pythonxy versions had a \npatch that wasn't applied after the switch to msvc?\n```\n\nOriginal issue reported on code.google.com by `Michael....@gmail.com` on 14 Mar 2015 at 12:24\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/GoogleCodeExporter","@type":"Person","name":"GoogleCodeExporter"},"datePublished":"2015-05-14T12:44:59.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/768/pythonxy/issues/768"}