Index: pyport.h
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--- pyport.h	(Revision 75557)
+++ pyport.h	(Arbeitskopie)
@@ -546,36 +546,36 @@
 */
 
 /*
-  All windows ports, except cygwin, are handled in PC/pyconfig.h.
+  All windows ports, except cygwin/mingw, are handled in PC/pyconfig.h.
 
-  BeOS and cygwin are the only other autoconf platform requiring special
+  BeOS and cygwin/mingw are the only other autoconf platform requiring special
   linkage handling and both of these use __declspec().
 */
-#if defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(__BEOS__)
+#if defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(__MINGW32__) || defined(__BEOS__)
 #	define HAVE_DECLSPEC_DLL
 #endif
 
-/* only get special linkage if built as shared or platform is Cygwin */
-#if defined(Py_ENABLE_SHARED) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
+/* only get special linkage if built as shared or platform is Cygwin/mingw */
+#if defined(Py_ENABLE_SHARED) || defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(__MINGW32__)
 #	if defined(HAVE_DECLSPEC_DLL)
 #		ifdef Py_BUILD_CORE
 #			define PyAPI_FUNC(RTYPE) __declspec(dllexport) RTYPE
 #			define PyAPI_DATA(RTYPE) extern __declspec(dllexport) RTYPE
 			/* module init functions inside the core need no external linkage */
-			/* except for Cygwin to handle embedding (FIXME: BeOS too?) */
-#			if defined(__CYGWIN__)
+			/* except for Cygwin/mingw to handle embedding (FIXME: BeOS too?) */
+#			if defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(__MINGW32__)
 #				define PyMODINIT_FUNC __declspec(dllexport) void
-#			else /* __CYGWIN__ */
+#			else /* __CYGWIN__ || __MINGW32__ */
 #				define PyMODINIT_FUNC void
-#			endif /* __CYGWIN__ */
+#			endif /* __CYGWIN__ || __MINGW32__ */
 #		else /* Py_BUILD_CORE */
 			/* Building an extension module, or an embedded situation */
 			/* public Python functions and data are imported */
-			/* Under Cygwin, auto-import functions to prevent compilation */
+			/* Under Cygwin/mingw, auto-import functions to prevent compilation */
 			/* failures similar to http://python.org/doc/FAQ.html#3.24 */
-#			if !defined(__CYGWIN__)
+#			if !defined(__CYGWIN__) && !defined(__MINGW32__)
 #				define PyAPI_FUNC(RTYPE) __declspec(dllimport) RTYPE
-#			endif /* !__CYGWIN__ */
+#			endif /* !__CYGWIN__ && !__MINGW32__ */
 #			define PyAPI_DATA(RTYPE) extern __declspec(dllimport) RTYPE
 			/* module init functions outside the core must be exported */
 #			if defined(__cplusplus)