RE: [Zope-dev] Zope & Cygwin

Phillip J. Eby writes:

Perhaps I'm confused, but I have an old (>3 months) version of Cygwin, but when I installed the Win32 Python 2.1.1 release, I was able to build extension modules just fine using distutils, after I built an import library. You shouldn't need VC++ to build Zope extensions, just distutils and gcc. Be sure to use (the equivalent of):

python211 setup.py build --compiler=mingw32

FYI We are talking about a POSIX compatable WIN32 based Zope that uses the Cygwin DLL for the POSIX layer. The MingW32 compiled executables are normal Win32 programs that don't know about <unistd.h> ect... Cheers Norman