[ZODB-Dev] cl.exe failed on setup.py build

[Tim Peters]

[Donnal Walter]
> Using Python 2.2 on Win2K I get the following error message
> when executing "% python setup.py build" from the
> Python22/Lib/site-packages/StandaloneZODB-1.0 directory:
>
> <snip>
> creating build\temp.win32-2.2
> creating build\temp.win32-2.2\Release
> cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GX -IC:\Python22\include
>     /TcExtensionClass/src/ExtensionClass.c
>     /Fobuild\temp.win32-2.2\Release\ExtensionClass.obj
> error: command 'cl.exe' failed: No such file or directory
>
> Do I need to install something else first? Thanks.

cl.exe is the name of Microsoft's C/C++ compiler.  Zope is tested with MSVC
(MicroSoft Visual C++) version 6 on Windows.  If you don't have MSVC6, that
explains it.  If you do have MSVC6, there's a world of other possibilities,
but one step at a time.