zodb install problem on Windows

[Andy Todd]

"Neil Hodgson" <nhodgson at bigpond.net.au> wrote in
<aSb_6.162676$ff.1256766 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>: 

>Andy Todd:
>> Hi all, I'm failing terribly here. I've commented out that section of
>> the setup.py file for the ZEO module and everything seems to have
>> installed correctly. But now I am getting an error;
>> ...
>> cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GX -IC:\PROGRAMMING\PYTHON21\Include
>> /Tcsrc/ExtensionClass.c
>> /Fobuild\temp.win32-2.1\Release\ExtensionClass.obj error: command
>> 'cl.exe' failed: No such file or directory 
>
>   It is failing because it requires a C compiler to build some binary
>libraries and Microsoft operating systems do not come with a C compiler.
>If noone else fixes this first and I can find some time I'll try and
>produce a package that includes binaries for Windows.
>
>   Neil
>

A-ha, I almost suspected as much ;-) Thanks very much for the info.

I think I've got an old version of DJGPP knocking about somewhere, would 
that be up to the job? I'm presuming if I get it installed I will also need 
to tell distutils where it is?

Regards,
Andy
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