[Zope-dev] Compiling Zope with cygwin

[Tres Seaver]

Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com>
> To: zope-dev@zope.org
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> 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.


I think you want to be using the mingwin32 stuff to get threading right (the
plain ole cygwin libc is flaky about threads -- mingwin32 uses the MS RTL). 
Robert Kern has a set of directions up about it on the starship, under:

  http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/

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