Install PyAV on Windows

Question

I got a problem building and thus setting up PyAV 32-bit on Windows 8 (x64). I tried the workflow for Windows as indicated in their documentation, but did not succeed:

• I cross-compiled ffmpeg on Ubuntu 14.04 with the aid of a script.
• I copied the *shared-install folder to Windows and set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to the corresponding libs/pkgconfig path.
• I copied the ffmpeg DLLs and its dependencies from the MinGW bin-folder to PyAV's av folder as mentioned in PyAV's docs.
• I ran make build-mingw32 (where build-mingw32 is a recipe triggering python distutils like that: CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) python setup.py build_ext --inplace -c mingw32)

Finally I run into trouble with that last command. When the build process tries to create codec.pyd there is a bunch of undefined reference to _head_C_build27_cpython_PCBuild_libpython27_a errors leading gcc to fail. See cmd output below:

I tried this on a fresh virtual machine running Windows 8.1 Pro having installed the MinGW toolchain including msys (I used the installer from mingw.org). I also tried the MinGW installer provided here. I hope someone already experienced similar issues using gcc and can help me with that!

Thanks in advance and best regards, Michael