Anthony Pfrunder did some neat work on this a ways back, you might want to try hunting him down. Once upon a time, long ago (about eight months, pre 2.0) I had Zope compiling from sources on my NT box. Of course I've almost completely forgotten how I got it to work, but here's the jist of what I did: I started off with the Python 1.5.2 binary install for windows. Haven't tried compiling Python using mingw32 however. Check out http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/mingw32/Notes.html and follow the instructions there. After that it was a direct path to building Zope, though I may have had to do a little trickery to get the Extensions to compile sanely. If I remember correctly I simply deleted the code that compiled the extensions in the build script for Zope and instead used compmgw.py to build the Extensions. Not much help, I know, but hopefully it will put you a little further down the path, John

-----Original Message----- From: Michel Pelletier [SMTP:michel@digicool.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 1:40 PM To: zope-dev@zope.org Subject: [Zope-dev] Compiling Zope with cygwin

Has anyone gotten this to work? I can get Python to compile, and I can get Zope to compile, but I can't get Python to compile w/ threads, and thus Zope complains and bombs. Does anyone know if it's possible to compile a python extension against one python but run it with another? I'll keep playing if no one has a better clue.

-Michel

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