Cython installation problem solved - please adapt

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If relevant, please answer to the following questions:
1. What version of Python(x,y) have you installed?
2.6.6.0
2. Which components have you installed (Python(x,y) installer: component
page):
c. Have you selected manually plugins in the component list? What
plugins?
in addition I selected Cython which is the problem I want to report below.
3. Have you selected the option "Customize installation directories"?
b. No
5. Where did you install Python(x,y) itself?
a. default path
6. Have you installed Python(x,y):
    a. For "Current user only"
    b. For "All users"
Actually I don't know but it doesn't matter for the subject in question I 
suppose.
7. What is your operating system?
a. Windows XP
8. When you installed Python(x,y), were you logged in as :
b. an administrator of the machine
10. Regarding installed softwares on your machine, how did you clean your
machine before installing Python(x,y) (multiple answers are possible):
a. you didn't do anything, you installed Python(x,y) directly on your
machine without precaution

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I rather want to report a problem that is caused by your Cython installation. 
We finally solved that problem, and you may want to avoid this problem in other 
users, so please follow the instructions.

(This problem has predominantly discussed in the Cython user news group 
http://groups.google.com/group/cython-users/browse_thread/thread/f30f6a66281ba29
2 Thread: Cython compilation Problem "error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat")

To avoid this problem please during Cython installation.
1. Put MinGW on the Windows PATH
2. Add a configuration file that makes MinGW the default compiler.
as described here 
(http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/SciPy2009/paper_1/full_text.pdf)

Finally, tell Python to use MinGW as the default
compiler (otherwise it will try for Visual C). If
Python is installed to “c:\Python26”, create a file
named “c:\Python26\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg”
containing:
[build]
compiler = mingw32

Thanks
R.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Kamha...@googlemail.com on 1 Jun 2011 at 5:46