[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope3 vs CVS Python

[waldekO]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Tom Deprez wrote:
> 
>> Just hopping in,
>> you can ignore this message if you want :-) :
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Ok, I'll check it in soon.  GCC on Windows lets us give an answer to
>>> all the folks on the mailing lists who want to use Zope source
>>> releases and Zope CVS without buying and learning MSVC.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Great! This would be really nice.
>> Another option would have been the free borland C++ compiler (I still
>> don't know why people favorite MSVC) :
>> http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_cbuilder.html
> 
> 
> Good point.  In fact, it looks like distutils supports it.  If you have 
> a Zope 3 checkout and Python 2.2.1 or Python CVS, cd to your Zope 3 root 
> and see if this works:
> 
> python stupid_build.py build_ext -i -c bcpp
> 
> Shane

I can confirm that it works.  That is what I always use to compile Zope3

waldekO