cygwin+python+XML?

[Alex Martelli]

"Jason Tishler" <jason at tishler.net> writes:
    ...
> AFAICT, the attached tiny patch is necessary.  With this patch, expat
> built cleanly for me.  However, since a regression test is not supplied,
> I don't know whether or not Cygwin expat works properly.

>From informal tests, it looks just fine.

> Please apply the attached patch to your source and build.  If expat
> functions as expected, then I encourage you to submit it to expat CVS
> for consideration.  Sorry, but I don't use XML (right now) so I don't

NP, I checked the buglist on expat's sourceforge page, and the bug
and solution were already there, so I just added a comment supporting
the request for the patch to be checked in.  make and make install,
and now I appear to have a functional expat under cygwin.

Then I copied pyexpat.c from the Python sources onto its own little
directory to which I added a tiny custom setup.py:

import sys
from distutils.core import setup, Extension

pyex_ext = Extension('pyexpat', sources=['pyexpat.c'],
    define_macros=[('HAVE_EXPAT_H', '1')],
    library_dirs=["/usr/local/lib"],
    libraries=["expat"],
    )

setup (name = "pyexpat",
       ext_modules = [ pyex_ext ]
)

and a python setup.py install built and installed it flawlessly.

I tested it, again, informally, but it seems fine.


> See the follow for a way to build Cygwin Tkinter:
> 
>     http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/python/tinker.html

This one is still giving me trouble, but I'll get back
to it eventually!-)


Alex