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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )