Windows not actually supported

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Converted from SourceForge issue 857748, submitted by brianiac

Windows is listed as a supported OS for this project,
but there are no binaries available.
Windows does not include any compilers, and anyone
using ActivePython is given the error "Python was built
with version 6 of Visual Studio, and extensions need to
be built with the same version of the compiler, but it
isn't installed.".
This seems to indicate that the only way to install
LinkChecker (aside from shelling out >$1K) is to build
Python with MinGW, or find a binary built that way
(suboptimal).

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Submitted by calvin

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The main reason for missing windows binaries is that I do
not have Windows installed. Only at work (where I also have
Visual Studio) I can try out compiling/installing from time
to time.
Now, do not despair ;) I am working on documentation about a
compilation environment with MingW and detailed installation
instructions. Then installation on a windows system will be
possible without Visual Studio (at least if you have normal
Python, not ActivePython).
I will keep this bug open until the documentation is released.

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Submitted by calvin

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The new installation docs (for building with mingw) are
committed to CVS as INSTALL v1.49 and will be in the next
release.