"John J. Lee" wrote:

What is the current situation with building extensions with Distutils on cygwin with the normal MSVC-built Python 2.0 windows binaries? I can build extensions okay (I think) using a makefile, but I'm trying to figure out how to use Distutils to do the same thing: is cygwin supported at all?

Reading a couple of messages here from a month or two ago about building Python itself on cygwin, I saw a comment from someone that he didn't know if cygwin built extensions worked reliably with the normal MSVC python 2.0 binary. As far as I know, they do, but I take it from the comment that there isn't any support in Distutils yet? Does it fit in well with the existing structure, since it's kind of two platforms in one, if you see what I mean? Is it likely to be supported in the near future?

Distutils supports cygwin and mingw32 for 6 months or so. The message you read (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2000-November/001727.html) is about compiling the whole python using cygwin.

Note that this is using dllwrap -mno-cygwin, which doesn't use any of the POSIX stuff from cygwin, which would mean you'd have to have cygwin1.dll to use the extension for no particular reason. The only reason I'm using cygwin rather than mingw32 is that it has a convenient command line.

You have to specify --compiler=cygwin for cygwin using cygwin1.dll or --compiler=mingw32 for cygwin without using cygwin1.dll (or for mingw32) What you need is a library libpython20.a which serves as import library for python20.dll. If you don't want to create this library for your own you may ask Reuben Sumner (see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2000-December/001783.html) for it. (Greg, it may be a good idea to put this library on the download page of distutils or python.) Kind regards Rene Liebscher