About Unknown MS Compiler version 19xx

[imba-tjd]

Some developers try to use MinGW/MinGW-w64, but they will get an error like ValueError: Unknown MS Compiler version 19xx.

There is an issue and a patch in https://bugs.python.org/issue25251

Cython says don't use MinGW-w64: https://github.com/cython/cython/wiki/CythonExtensionsOnWindows#less-useful-information

numpy/numpy#6875 says vcruntime140.dll does not contain the C runtime

Any thoughts?

Edit: I created pypa/distutils#41

[webknjaz]

I think a pull request implementing this would be welcome.