Hello, Trying to use distutils 1.0.1 to build an extension module and an accompanying library I have some problems. First, when I call

python setup.py build

I get cg error (as) : cannot open output file "build/temp.solaris-2.7-sun4u-1.5/../mtxobj_spooles.o" under solaris and a similar message under WIN32. My library files are in the parent directory to the directory where setup.py is. So in the definitions for the library build i use "../mtxobj_spooles.c" which leads distutils not to generate the "build/temp.*" directory. But this is a minor problem compared to my second problem. I can't belive it is a general distutils problem, but have no clue what else can be wrong. After having made "build/temp.win32-1.5" by hand, compiling the windows version fails with "unresolved external symbol" errors like these: spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _PyErr_SetFromErrno spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _PyCObject_FromVoidPtr spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _PyArg_ParseTuple spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _PyCObject_AsVoidPtr spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _PyErr_SetString spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__PyExc_TypeError spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__PyCObject_Type spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _Py_BuildValue spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__PyExc_ValueError spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp___Py_NoneStruct spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _PyDict_GetItemString spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _PyModule_GetDict spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _PyImport_ImportModule spsolve.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _Py_InitModule4 now that seems strange to me though i thought the distutils take care to link python15.lib to avoid these error messages. Could that be a configuration problem on my side or is this a 1.0.1 bug? Greetings Berthold -- email: hoel@GermanLloyd.org ) tel. : +49 (40) 3 61 49 - 73 74 ( C[_] These opinions might be mine, but never those of my employer.