Hi, as I wrote in my previous email, I'm currently porting Python to some more unusual platforms, namely to a super computer (http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/) and a tiny embedded operating system (http://ecos.sourceware.org), which have more or less surprisingly quite similar properties. To do this, I added CMake files to Python, in order to use CMake to cross compile Python to these platforms. CMake (http://www.cmake.org) is a buildsystem in scope similar to autotools, but it's just one tool (instead of a collection of tools) and it support Windows and the MS compilers as first class citizens, i.e. it can not only generate Makefiles, but also project files for the various versions of Visual Studio, and also for XCode. Attached you can find the files I had to add to get this working. With these CMake files I was able to build python for eCos, BlueGene, Linux and Windows (with Visual Studio 2003, but here I simply reused the existing pyconfig.h, because I didn't want to spend to much time with this). So for Linux the configure checks should be already quite good and almost complete, for eCos and BlueGene they also work (both are UNIX-like), for Windows there is probably some tweaking required. So if anybody is interested in trying to use CMake for Python, you can find the files attached. Version 2.4.5 of CMake or newer is required. I guess I should mention that I'm doing this currently with the released Python 2.5.1. Bye Alex