would it be possible (or impossible) to use mingw-64 instead of visual studio on Windows ?

[stonebig]

My detail use-case is described here; nteract/hydrogen#79

[justinmchase]

Possible duplicate of #194

[stonebig]

I don't use MSYS, so it's worse than that (or different)

[stonebig]

using mingwpy as a possible target compiler of node-gyp may be a simple way to resolve the general issue #629

mingwpy can now be installed like a wheel

pip install -i https://pypi.binstar.org/carlkl/simple mingwpy

(simpler than the vs mega-download and installation process)

[bnoordhuis]

The short answer is 'no': mingw is not supported by gyp and its C++ symbol mangling is incompatible with VS. Even if you got it to compile, you wouldn't be able to load the resulting add-on in node (which is built with VS.)