[Zope-dev] Zope & Cygwin

[Phil Harris]

It's probably me that's confused :)


On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:19:04 -0500
"Phillip J. Eby" <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> At 11:33 PM 10/10/01 -0400, Phil Harris wrote:
> >I had a brief conversation with the Cygwin Python maintainer a little 
> >while back, supposedly the next release of Cygwin will have a threaded 
> >Python (2.1.1 or maybe even higher).
> >
> >Phil
> >
> >On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:17:22 -0400
> >"Chris McDonough" <chrism@zope.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > FYI
> > > > I finally have a Cygwin compiled Zope running in a Cygwin enviroment.
> > > > This is with the very latest Cygwin distribution augmented by a locally
> > > > compiled Cygwin as represented by the current Cygwin CVS files.
> > >
> > > Cool!  This is excellent.  This means that I stand a shot at getting rid of
> > > 200 miserable MB of VC++ on my machine.
> > >
> > > I presume this means that Cygwin Python ships with threads enabled?
> > >
> > > - C