Python 3.4: compile cython module for 64-bit windows
Ok, at long last I managed to make it work.
The fantastic resources by Christoph Gohlke (http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs) are key.
- Install your desired Python version in the conventional way
- Install any extensions you need from Gohlke's site
- Install MinGW-w64 from http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download
- Patch distutils as per http://bugs.python.org/issue11723
- Install the appropriate version of libpython from Gohlke's site
- Bob's yer uncle
(Trying all sorts of wild suggestions for this task, I have gone through many more steps but as far as I can tell, these are the only ones that actually made a difference in the end)