3.10.7 - MinGW on Windows makefile error

[manhnt9]

Bug report

After configuring Python source code (3.10.7) and running make, the error appears:
mingw32-make: *** No rule to make target 'Modules/Setup.config', needed by 'Makefile'. Stop.

Your environment

• Operating system and architecture: Windows 10 x64
• Compiler: GCC 10.3.0

[manhnt9]

I also tested with 3.10.8, same error.

[dg0yt]

Note #89701.

[manhnt9]

Thanks @dg0yt. I can be the maintainer for this matter but currently very new to building Python from source.
Could you or someone help me understand about 'Modules/Setup.config' ?

[Fidget-Spinner]

@manhnt9 the maintainer for MinGW support needs to be a Python core developer. We also need the steering council to approve it, Please see PEP 11 https://peps.python.org/pep-0011/

[ericvsmith]

Per #89701, I'm closing this as a duplicate.

Our general stance on non-supported platforms is that we will accept patches if they're not too invasive. So while I'm closing this, if someone wants to submit a patch it might be accepted.

[manhnt9]

Solved, posting here for reference: msys2-contrib#103

[dg0yt]

Solved, posting here for reference: msys2-contrib#103

I don't think it is solved. AFAIU https://github.com/msys2-contrib/cpython-mingw is to maintain the patches which are needed to build python for msys2/mingw:
https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python

[manhnt9]

It's quite different. MinGW build script fetches original python source (this repo archive) and apply patches.
The way they generate patches is to look at cpython-mingw repo, compare and generate.

Solved means:

• This repo won't support MinGW build soon
• I just use cpython-mingw directly

There won't be 100+ patches needed in the build script.