[ZODB-Dev] Please help - no cl.exe available

[Paul Roe]

I'm working on a few different windows platforms and have had good
success with mingw. Shouldnt be too hard to adapt this to cygwin.

Mingw install notes see
http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/mingw32/Notes.html
   in brief - go to www.mingw.org, get libbfd, binutils,ld,gcc,w32api &
mingw-runtime...    expand them wherever...

Need Mingw inport libraries for python several options here.
  there is a ready-to-use Python20 import library for mingw32 at
        http://www.zope.org/Members/als/libpython20.zip
  Instructions for how to build the library is at
        http://www.zope.org/Members/als/tips/win32_mingw_modules

  you can generate an import library from its dll using mingw tools
    and pexports from http://www.acc.umu.se/~anorland/gnu-win32/.

    Use pexports to generate the def file
        pexports python2x.dll > python2x.def
    and then create a library with the mingw dlltool
        dlltool --dllname python2x.dll --input-def python2x.def \  
		--output-lib libpython2x.a

    Copy these files to the python libs directory.

Now run the installs telling it to use the ming32 stuff.
python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32
python setup.py install

good luck

Paul

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On Sun, 2001-09-16 at 10:47, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
> I added C:\Zope\lib\python to my PYTHONPATH and that seems to be working.
> That connects me to the ZODB modules that are distributed with Zope. But I'm
> left wondering what differences there are between those modules and the ones
> in cvs that make up StandaloneZODB. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks.
> 
> ---
> Patrick K. O'Brien
> Orbtech (http://www.orbtech.com)
> "I am, therefore I think."
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zodb-dev-admin@zope.org [mailto:zodb-dev-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
> Patrick K. O'Brien
> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 5:31 PM
> To: ZODB
> Subject: [ZODB-Dev] Please help - no cl.exe available
> 
> I got the latest StandaloneZODB out of cvs and did "python setup.py build"
> as instructed in the README, but since I do not have the MS C++ compiler it
> failed on the cl.exe step. Does this mean I won't be able to use the version
> out of cvs?
> 
> If so, is anyone making binaries available that are current with the cvs
> versions? I know AMK has binaries available, but I was under the impression
> those were not current.
> 
> I do have Zope installed, but I want to also use ZODB standalone and need to
> be able to import ZODB in my python shell. The normal Zope install doesn't
> seem to make ZODB available in this way. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> I'm on Win98se, btw. I do have Cygwin, which has the Gnu C++ compiler, but
> that probably won't do me any good in this situation, right?
> 
> Thanks for any and all help.
> 
> ---
> Patrick K. O'Brien
> Orbtech (http://www.orbtech.com)
> "I am, therefore I think."
> 
> 
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