error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

The error I am getting is " error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 开发者_如何学运维1 "

The command I'm using is: python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32

I'm on Windows XP and I installed minGW. I am trying to use kinterbasdb for python.

That means it did not use mingw32 as a compiler. In the terminal type

which mingw32

If that does not return anything the system does not know that this compiler is installed. That could be the problem. Then you'd have to add the compiler to the path variable and try again.