From 0e321a710524b29e0cfe18da86cb0307af62a0ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henning Peters <pete@dexterslab.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 23:25:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] get mingw32 to work

---
 spacy/en/download.py | 11 +++++++++--
 venv.ps1             | 11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spacy/en/download.py b/spacy/en/download.py
index 42082ca1a..ea459b1b0 100644
--- a/spacy/en/download.py
+++ b/spacy/en/download.py
@@ -17,8 +17,15 @@ def migrate(path):
 
 def link(package, path):
     if os.path.exists(path):
-        os.unlink(path)
-    os.symlink(package.dir_path('data'), path)
+        if os.path.isdir(path):
+            shutil.rmtree(path)
+        else:
+            os.unlink(path)
+
+    if not hasattr(os, 'symlink'):  # not supported by win+py27
+        shutil.copytree(package.dir_path('data'), path)
+    else:
+        os.symlink(package.dir_path('data'), path)
 
 
 @plac.annotations(
diff --git a/venv.ps1 b/venv.ps1
index b5b05b9ca..e84822309 100644
--- a/venv.ps1
+++ b/venv.ps1
@@ -2,14 +2,21 @@ param (
     [string]$python = $(throw "-python is required."),
     [string]$install_mode = $(throw "-install_mode is required."),
     [string]$pip_date
+    [string]$compiler
 )
 
 $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
- 
+
 if(!(Test-Path -Path ".build"))
 {
-    virtualenv .build --python $python
+    virtualenv .build --system-site-packages --python $python
 }
+
+if($compiler)
+{
+    "[build]`r`ncompiler=$compiler" | Out-File .\.build\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg
+}
+
 .build\Scripts\activate.ps1
 
 python build.py prepare $pip_date