Alberto, You better try with cygwin (remember to install mingw32), as the error message recommends.
After that, you will have to patch your installation: http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8128 BTW, if you want results quick, stick to linux. Regards, Edo. Alberto Lopes wrote: > > Dear friends, > > I am experimenting with the buildout-based Windows install for Plone. > > One of the things I am trying to install is the LDAP support. > > So I add to the eggs and zcml sections of the [instance] part the > plone.app.ldap string. > > The problem is that when buildout gets to the part of installing the > dependecies, it tries to install the python-ldap package. It downloads the > source and tries to compile it, but then it throws the following message: > > >> error: Setup script exited with error: Python was built with Visual >> Studio 2003; >> >> extensions must be built with a compiler than can generate compatible >> binaries. >> Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this system. If you have Cygwin >> installed, >> you can try compiling with MingW32, by passing "-c mingw32" to setup.py. >> An error occured when trying to install python-ldap 2.3.5.Look above this >> messag >> e for any errors thatwere output by easy_install. >> > > I tried to easy_install python-ldap separately beforehand, but if I just > use the "basic" form of easy install (supplying only the python-ldap > package name) it would give me the same error message - for I understand > easy_install tries to download the sources from the CheeseShop and compile > it. > > I tried to download the binary egg from > http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/download.shtml (the .eggs link), and > install it using easy_install. But the problem would be that they only > have a binary for the 2.3.4 version of python-ldap, which is not the > latest one as listed in the Cheese Shop. So, if I buildout installing the > binary for 2.3.4, easy_install would try to install again the latest > version and the "no Visual Studio" error would be thrown. > > They have the binary MSI installer at http://www.osuch.org/python-ldap, > but it is only for python 2.5 (and the Windows buildout installer for > Plone installs Python 2.4.4) > > So, I guess that one solution would be installing a downloaded binary for > python 2.4.4 from http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/download.shtml and > trying to tell buildout that the 2.3.4 version of python-ldap is > sufficient... But I have no idea on how and whether that can be done. > > Can anyone give me a hand on this? > > Regards, > > Alberto > > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/plone.app.ldap-in-buildout-in-Windows%3A-no-Visual-Studio-tp1520141p1586430.html Sent from the Installation, Setup, Upgrades mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
