[Zope-dev] Re: Can't fetch externals???

Paul Winkler wrote:

Update: I *can* fetch the externals from a different box (my windows laptop, on which i can't successfully build zope because cygwin's python is known-broken and I don't have a C compiler other than cygwin's.)

That's no excuse ;) You can build Zope on Windows easily with gcc coming with MingW32, which is a lot less intrusive and actually working ;) There is a short description in chapter 6.2.2 here: http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/inst/tweak-flags.html and some additional notes can be found by following the two 'See also' links. I have Zope 2.8 trunk running successfully and without problems this way. Best regards, Hanno