[XML-SIG] Problems installing XML package v 0.5.2

[Eileen Kinley]

Environment: Windows 98
Python version: 1.5.2

Questions and a problem report wrt installation.

python setup.py build/install fail due to problems compiling sgmlop (see
problem report below)

I went ahead and ran setup.py install --skip-build, and it copied the
hierarchy (generated by my earlier attempts) into my python directory.

I noticed that there is a precompiled version of sgmlop available, however
it (and several other DLLs) did not get copied.  

Question: Do I simply need to put these dll's in a directory that is in my
search path?  

 c:/Program Files/PyXML-0.5.5.1/windows:
  total 142
  drwxrwxrwx   2 kinley   123             0 Sep  1 10:06 .
  drwxrwxrwx   2 kinley   123             0 Sep  1 10:02 ..
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 kinley   123          8704 Aug 15  1999 pyexpat.dll
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 kinley   123         12800 Aug 15  1999 sgmlop.dll
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 kinley   123           386 Jul 31  1998 sgmlop.mak
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 kinley   123         49152 May 29  1999 xmlparse.dll
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 kinley   123         73728 May 29  1999 xmltok.dll

Next question:

To save my colleagues having to step through this, can I simply zip up the
python/xml subdirectory that has been created and ship that?

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Installation problem report

Some additional documentation might help this one (the readme says to simply
run setup.py)

Caveat: I'm not a C programmer! I recently installed the cygwin utilities,
so do have gcc available...

python setup.py build fails with the following error:


building 'sgmlop' extension
cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GX "-IC:\PROGRAM FILES\PYTHON\Include"
/Tcextensions/sgmlop.c /Fobuild\temp.win32\Release\extensions/sgmlop.obj
warning: build_py: package init file 'xml\parsers\xmlproc\__init__.py' not
found (or not a regular file)
warning: build_ext: old-style (ext_name, build_info) tuple found in
ext_modules for extension 'sgmlop'-- please convert to Extension instance
warning: build_ext: old-style (ext_name, build_info) tuple found in
ext_modules for extension 'xml.unicode.wstrop'-- please convert to Extension
instance
warning: build_ext: old-style (ext_name, build_info) tuple found in
ext_modules for extension 'xml.parsers.pyexpat'-- please convert to
Extension instance
error: command 'cl.exe' failed: No such file or directory

"cl" doesn't exist on my machine.  

I recently installed the cygwin utilities, so seem to have gcc available;
however I'm not sure how to compile/link sgmlop.

TIA,

Eileen

Eileen Kinley
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