C/Cygwin/Python

[chris liechti]

m-turk at nwu.edu (Matthew Turk) wrote in news:slrn9mdold.1snq.m-
turk at dhcp101054.res-hall.nwu.edu:
> Hi there.  I'm working on some 'back-end' stuff that I'm doing in C -
> and I'm struggling through compiling it properly, which is an entirely
> different question.

i can try my makefile

that's a example on using DDE:
http://www.geocities.com/chrisliechti/en/python/spam2.0.zip

> 
> Essentially, I want to be able to use it on computers that don't run
> Cygwin.  Is this going to work?  I certainly *don't* want to resort to

its needing cygwin1.dll not the entire cygwin installation - i think.

> Visual C, since I have no idea how to operate in that environment, nor
> do I own a copy.  I know that cygwin has the -Wno_cygwin or something
> flag that'll compile without CYGWIN.DLL, but will that be sufficient
> for compiling a python extension?

the extension should work either way. its just more convenient for 
distribution if you dont need to suply the cygwin stuff.

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chris <cliechti at mails.ch>