Ummm... you appear to be missing the C++ compiler or the setup.py is referencing a compiler different from the one you have in place. Look at the setup.* files and modify them as appropriate. This from a quick google on "cl.exe" gives a bit more information. It's from the archives of this list. -dra [Donnal Walter]

Using Python 2.2 on Win2K I get the following error message when executing "% python setup.py build" from the Python22/Lib/site-packages/StandaloneZODB-1.0 directory:

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<snip> creating build\temp.win32-2.2 creating build\temp.win32-2.2\Release cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GX -IC:\Python22\include /TcExtensionClass/src/ExtensionClass.c /Fobuild\temp.win32-2.2\Release\ExtensionClass.obj error: command 'cl.exe' failed: No such file or directory Do I need to install something else first? Thanks. cl.exe is the name of Microsoft's C/C++ compiler. Zope is tested with MSVC (MicroSoft Visual C++) version 6 on Windows. If you don't have MSVC6, that explains it. If you do have MSVC6, there's a world of other possibilities, but one step at a time.

From: "Joseph Griffin" <jgriffin@pclnet.net>

It probably means that the compiler is looking for all the files it needs for the compilation and did not find them. Look at all the messages leading up to the error message to get a clue to where the failure is. Joseph

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:30:13 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Fung wrote

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I've tried to install MySQL-python-0.9.1 again, but, when I try to build the it, I get a message at the end saying "error: command 'cl.exe' failed: No such file or directory", and afterwards, if I try to install it, I get the same message. Whats this mean?

Thanks for all the help!

--- Dennis Allison <allison@sumeru.stanford.EDU> wrote:

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From: Stephen Fung <ricepail@yahoo.com>

I've tried to install ZMySQLDA before, but I've gotten stuck every time. I've installed the newest version of Python on my computer, and have tried to follow the given directions, but, as I run windowsXP, there isn't a whole lot of instructions for windows users. I can't the the ZMySQLDA to work at all, and I get the same "No Module Named _myql" error whenever I start Zope. Can somebody please guide me through the install process in WindowsXP?

I've not tried an installations on Windows, but I suspect that the following Linux cautions apply--

First, be sure you have the right version of Python. With Zope 2.5.1 you need Python 2.1.3. Later versions won't work.

You need to install two products not one. I use MySQL-python-0.9.1 and ZMySQLDA-2.0.8. One is the python interface to MySQL and the other is the database adaptor for Zope.

Be sure you install both using the version of Python you are using to run Zope--otherwise the wrong libraries are updated.