[Zope3-dev] Z3 documentation

[Shane Hathaway]

Steve Alexander wrote:
> Garrett Smith wrote:
> 
>> I have a Linux machine, but my primary dev workstation is Windows. I
>> have Zope 3 up and running in a CVS sandbox on Windows. What's unique
>> about Linux wrt Z3?
> 
> 
> The difference is that most Linux distributions come with a C compiler.
> Most Windows distributions do not. So, if you're using MS Windows, you'd 
> have to make sure you're using a compiler that works with the Zope 3 
> code. Stephan's instructions would have had an extra step.
> 
> It would probably need to be approximately the same compiler that built 
> whatever Python you're using, but I'm not sure about that as I don't use 
> a Windows machine.

Last I checked, Zope 3 compiles well with MinGW (www.mingw.org), a 
minimalist port of GCC and other utilities to Windows (all free 
software).  Distutils even supports it natively:

python setup.py build_ext -c mingw32

Shane