Python extension on Windows

[Peter Scott]

David Isal <david.isal at wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:<bemf6t$l1r$1 at news-reader4.wanadoo.fr>...
> i read that it is mandatory to use Micro$oft visual c++ to build any 
> extensions on windows beacuse it's the same compiler used to build 
> python for windows.
> does anybody has advices about that?
> i would rather use cygwin/g++ but i don't know if it's possible or how 
> to fix this error message.

I don't know what's causing your particular problem (since I got free
MSVC++ from a Microsoft promotional gimmick), but if you download the
python 2.2.3 source and compile that with Cygwin, that should
eliminate any possible incompatibilities between compilers.

The source tarball is at
<http://python.org/ftp/python/2.2.3/Python-2.2.3.tgz>.