From: Jonathan Taylor [mailto:jonathan.taylor@stanford.edu]
and the error messages:
F:\Python Example>python setup.py build -c mingw32 running build running build_ext building 'foo' extension writing build\temp.win32-2.3\Release\foo.def F:\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe -mno-cygwin -shared -s build\temp.win32-2.3\Release\foo.o b uild\temp.win32-2.3\Release\foo.def -LF:\Python23\libs -LF:\Python23\PCBuild -lp ython23 -o build\lib.win32-2.3\foo.pyd build\temp.win32-2.3\Release\foo.o(.text+0x94):foo.c: undefined reference to `_i mp__PyExc_TypeError' build\temp.win32-2.3\Release\foo.o(.text+0xc1):foo.c: undefined reference to `_i mp___Py_NoneStruct' error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You need to build a libpython23.a library (it's not supplied with Python). See section 6.2.2 of "Installing Python Modules" in the Python documentation, it gives all the steps you need. Hope this helps, Paul.