[Zope3-dev] Zope3 vs CVS Python

[Guido van Rossum]

> > wrapper.c:228: initializer element is not constant
> > wrapper.c:228: (near initialization for `WrapperType.tp_alloc')
> > wrapper.c:230: initializer element is not constant
> > wrapper.c:230: (near initialization for `WrapperType.tp_free')
> > error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> 
> Hm.  This works with GCC on Unix, and also works with MSVC on Windows.
> But if you feel that GCC on Windows is an important target, can you
> please check in a fix?  It's a fine line, initializing structures with
> addresses defined in different files often doesn't seem to work on
> Windows.  MSVC has this problem only for the address of external
> data, I believe -- over the years we've grown a whole set of ways to
> deal with the fact that you can't initialize the ob_type field of a
> type struct with &PyType_Type on Windows...

Tim reminds me that this is only an issue when compiling code that
will go into a DLL.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)