Python+Cygwin+XML SAX build failure of PyXML 0.7.1

[Dmitri]

Hello,
(possibly this is the second message, I have had a little prob., so
sorry
if it is, but this message contains the source info :)

Source from 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6473:
PyXML-0.7.1.tar.gz 606480  2060  Platform-Independent Source .gz 

Target:
I need the XML SAX parser for Python under Cygwin.
(And I can not find precompiled version for Cygwin)
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Precondition:

*Windows 2000 Prof.
*CygWin ver.:  2.194.2.22
*GCC ver.:     2.95.3-5
    Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/specs
    gcc version 2.95.3-5 (cygwin special)
*Python ver.:  2.2.1
    $ python
    Python 2.2.1 (#1, Jun  6 2002, 16:53:43)
    [GCC 2.95.3-5 (cygwin special)] on cygwin

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Description of the problem:

After unpacking of the tarball, the issuing the python setup.py build
cause the following compiling error during building the expat
extention:

.
. -- copying ---
.
.
copying xml/xslt/_4xslt.py ->
build/lib.cygwin-1.3.10-i686-2.2/_xmlplus/xslt
copying xml/xslt/__init__.py ->
build/lib.cygwin-1.3.10-i686-2.2/_xmlplus/xslt
running build_ext
building '_xmlplus.parsers.pyexpat' extension
creating build/temp.cygwin-1.3.10-i686-2.2
gcc -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DUSE_DL_IMPORT
-DHAVE_EXPAT_H -DV
ERSION="1.95.2" -DXML_NS=1 -DXML_DTD=1 -DXML_BYTE_ORDER=12
-DXML_CONTEXT_BYTES=1
024 -Iextensions/expat/lib -I/usr/local/include/python2.2 -c
extensions/pyexpat.
c -o build/temp.cygwin-1.3.10-i686-2.2/pyexpat.o
extensions/pyexpat.c:1709: initializer element is not constant
extensions/pyexpat.c:1709: (near initialization for
`handler_info[2].setter')
extensions/pyexpat.c:1712: initializer element is not constant
extensions/pyexpat.c:1712: (near initialization for
`handler_info[3].setter')
extensions/pyexpat.c:1715: initializer element is not constant
extensions/pyexpat.c:1715: (near initialization for
`handler_info[4].setter')
extensions/pyexpat.c:1718: initializer element is not constant
extensions/pyexpat.c:1718: (near initialization for
`handler_info[5].setter')
extensions/pyexpat.c:1727: initializer element is not constant
extensions/pyexpat.c:1727: (near initialization for
`handler_info[8].setter')
extensions/pyexpat.c:1736: initializer element is not constant
extensions/pyexpat.c:1736: (near initialization for
`handler_info[11].setter')
extensions/pyexpat.c:1739: initializer element is not constant
extensions/pyexpat.c:1739: (near initialization for
`handler_info[12].setter')
extensions/pyexpat.c:1742: initializer element is not constant
extensions/pyexpat.c:1742: (near initialization for
`handler_info[13].setter')
extensions/pyexpat.c:1745: initializer element is not constant
extensions/pyexpat.c:1745: (near initialization for
`handler_info[14].setter')
extensions/pyexpat.c:1754: initializer element is not constant
extensions/pyexpat.c:1754: (near initialization for
`handler_info[17].setter')
extensions/pyexpat.c:1757: initializer element is not constant
extensions/pyexpat.c:1757: (near initialization for
`handler_info[18].setter')
extensions/pyexpat.c:1760: initializer element is not constant
extensions/pyexpat.c:1760: (near initialization for
`handler_info[19].setter')
extensions/pyexpat.c:1763: initializer element is not constant
extensions/pyexpat.c:1763: (near initialization for
`handler_info[20].setter')
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

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Workaround:

the simple code review and primitive test like:
void funcA(int a, int b)
{
  printf("from A: %d, %d\n", a, b);
}

void funcB(int a, int b)
{
  printf("from B: %d, %d\n", a, b);
}

typedef void (*PF)(int, int);

struct S {
  const char * _F;
  PF           _pf;
};


extern struct S ars[2];

static struct S ars[] =
  {
    {"funcA", funcA },
    {"funcB", funcB },
  };

int main()
{
  printf("%s ", ars[0]._F);
  ars[0]._pf(1, 2);
  printf("%s ", ars[1]._F);
  ars[1]._pf(3, 4);

  return 0;
}

and 
$ gcc -o test main.c

shows that everything should be all right. But it is not...

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Searching the net:
1. I did not find the precompiled version of the PyXML for cygwin.
   Does someone know where can I get it, it it does exist?
2. The problem like "initializer element is not constant" is shown but
the recommendations goes to the updating of the gcc compiler with
unclear direction. That's possibly true, but instalation of the GNU's
projects under cygwin is a different story. And it's hard to beleive
that the upgrating compiler would fix this problem...

Thank you.

With the best regards,
  Dmitri