Unsupported platform mingw64_nt

[fgnievinski]

I got the following runtime error after trying pip install scipy:

Unsupported platform: mingw64_nt-10.0-19044. Please contact the scikit-build team.

could #485 help here?

[fgnievinski]

workaround:

pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-python-scipy

[henryiii]

#485 was merged a while back. Though Cygwin != mingw. I've been testing mingw for scikit-build-core, maybe I can backport the CI for that here.

[henryiii]

Do you know if there's something I need to set to get it to look for mingw? In #836 it seems to be (not) working (as expected) for msys, but for mingw it's not trying to build for that platform at all.

[fgnievinski]

I'd try naming it "msys2":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingw-w64#MSYS2

[henryiii]

That's not in the list of options here: https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2. It seems to be reporting "windows" as the platform, which to me seems like it's not getting Python from msys2.

I'll likely need to reconnect my Windows box to try to get this working. Is installing msys2 locally straightforward?

[fgnievinski]

sorry, I forgot to mention I might have multiple python versions installed, natively on Windows and over mingw/msys.

the installation of msys2 is a breeze:
https://www.msys2.org/#installation

check out the Windows virtual machines made available from Microsoft:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

thanks for looking into this.

[henryiii]

I tried this, but when I enabled mingw64_nt as a unix-like platform, it did exactly what it did to CI - it locked up the VM and it couldn't be recovered, I had to start over from scratch. I'm not sure how it can do that, but something's really going wrong.