I'm reposting this as my original post was buried in another thread. I've managed to get the zopeproject to work correctly on my Windows box thanks to the easy to follow instructions on the PyPI page for it. Next I tried to do a "python setup.py install" which, I was informed, is generally a bad idea to do and was suggested to use "virtualenv" to keep my global python nice and clean.
So I easy_installed virtualenv and making that work was a simple task. But once I'm inside my virtual environment, I can no longer get the zopeproject to compile the C extensions. H:\>Python24\Scripts\virtualenv.exe zopetest New python executable in zopetest\Scripts\python.exe Installing setuptools...............done. H:\>cd zopetest H:\zopetest>Scripts\easy_install.exe zopeproject Searching for zopeproject Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/zopeproject/ Best match: zopeproject 0.4 Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.4/z/zopeproject/zopeproject-0.4-py 2.4.egg#md5=3d5aa6290e3664698086f1279229e733 Processing zopeproject-0.4-py2.4.egg creating h:\zopetest\lib\site-packages\zopeproject-0.4-py2.4.egg Extracting zopeproject-0.4-py2.4.egg to h:\zopetest\lib\site-packages Adding zopeproject 0.4 to easy-install.pth file Installing zopeproject-script.py script to H:\zopetest\Scripts Installing zopeproject.exe script to H:\zopetest\Scripts Installed h:\zopetest\lib\site-packages\zopeproject-0.4-py2.4.egg Processing dependencies for zopeproject Finished processing dependencies for zopeproject H:\zopetest>Scripts\zopeproject.exe myzope Enter user (Name of an initial administrator user): admin Enter passwd (Password for the initial administrator user): admin Enter eggs_dir (Location where zc.buildout will look for and place packages) ['C :\\Documents and Settings\\mats\\buildout-eggs']: Creating directory .\myzope Downloading zc.buildout... Invoking zc.buildout... zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents... <snip...> error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 An error occured when trying to install zope.i18nmessageid 3.4.3.Look above this message for any errors thatwere output by easy_install. An error occured when trying to install zope.i18nmessageid 3.4.3.Look above this message for any errors thatwere output by easy_install. While: Installing app. Getting distribution for 'zope.i18nmessageid'. Error: Couldn't install: zope.i18nmessageid 3.4.3 Any help appreciated, Mats -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Virtualenv%2C-zopeproject%2C-MinGW-and-Windows-tf4524562.html#a12908760 Sent from the Zope3 - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users