Distutils prerequisites on Windows?

[Max M]

Jason Orendorff wrote:


>>I have an old versin of VC 6.0 lying around and would naturally prefer 
>>to use that so I can avoid spending money once more on a compiler.

> Should work.  Just install it, and try setup.py again.

I did, and the setup stopped with::

<snipped lots of succesfull setup stuff>

not copying zdaemon\__init__.py (output up-to-date)

running build_ext
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "setup.py", line 108, in ?
     headers = ['ExtensionClass/src/ExtensionClass.h', 
'ZODB/cPersistence.h'],
   File "C:\python\Python21\lib\distutils\core.py", line 138, in setup
     dist.run_commands()
   File "C:\python\Python21\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 899, in 
run_commands
     self.run_command(cmd)
   File "C:\python\Python21\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 919, in run_command
     cmd_obj.run()
   File "C:\python\Python21\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 106, 
in run
     self.run_command(cmd_name)
   File "C:\python\Python21\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 328, in run_command
     self.distribution.run_command(command)
   File "C:\python\Python21\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 919, in run_command
     cmd_obj.run()
   File "C:\python\Python21\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 
230, in run
     force=self.force)
   File "C:\python\Python21\lib\distutils\ccompiler.py", line 957, in 
new_compiler
     return klass (verbose, dry_run, force)
   File "C:\python\Python21\lib\distutils\msvccompiler.py", line 220, in 
__init__
     os.environ['path'] = string.join(path,';')
   File "C:\python\Python21\Lib\string.py", line 128, in join
     return sep.join(words)
UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)


So maybe I am having problems because I am running on a Danish version 
of Windows 2000 ?

gee ... and now I was so geared to try out the ZODB under .asp ... bummer.

This can be both because of the c-compiler and because of a Python bug 
in distutils I guess. What do I know ....

I guess I will have to wait until somebody with more knowledge than me 
makes a binary.

regards Max M