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Tue Jul 5 21:18:22 CEST 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-July/112235.html

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 14:12, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:25 AM, David Robinow <drobinow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>  Cygwin is not really a supported platform.
>
> ...
>
>> [Ultimately somebody with an
>> interest in cygwin will need to get active in python development. I've
>> been meaning to do this but life gets in the way.]
>>
>
> I was bitten by the lack of Cygwin support in 3.2 as well.
>
> IMO,  python-dev needs continuous integration on a build farm that
> includes representative platforms.  Most of the machines in the farm could
> be virtualboxes.
>
> I don't think the problem is so much that the right people haven't gotten
> involved, as that the currently-involved people don't know when they're
> breaking something for someone else due to the lack of continuous
> integration.
>

We've had that for some time now: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/

There are several issues on the bug tracker about cygwin build issues, but
to my knowledge, none of them have included successful patches.
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[Python-Dev] Compiling Python 3.2 on Cygwin fails