Python-LDAP for Win32

[Michael Ströder]

Brian Beck wrote:
> As far as I can tell, both maintainers[1] of the Windows builds of
> Python-LDAP[2] haven't updated in about a year.  This doesn't exactly
> make the builds ancient or obsolete, but it would be nice to start
> fresh with the latest version.

Indeed. That's a very unpleasant situation since there have been important 
fixes and enhancements in recent releases.

Contributions for python-ldap on Win32 would be highly appreciated.

In the mean time you could build python-ldap for cygwin.

> I've tried without success in building it myself.  The hardest part is
> simply that Python-LDAP is dependent on at LEAST two other projects --
> OpenLDAP and Cyrus SASL.  This increases the difficulty three-fold.

Add OpenSSL and heimdal to the list of (optional) dependencies... ;-)

As the maintainer of python-ldap I'm thinking of two different options 
making python-ldap available on Win32:

1. Rewrite everything in pure Python (lot of work)

2. Win32 on top of Microsoft's LDAP SDK (lots of #if's polluting the code)

> I know that Windows users are a minority when it comes to this module,
> but surely someone at least KNOWS how to get this to build on Windows.
>  I would be happy to maintain and host an updated build if only I
> could get this to work.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> [1] http://www.zope.org/Members/volkerw/LdapWin32
>     http://www.siosistemi.it/~mcicogni/

I asked the Win32 packagers to update their builds on the python-ldap-dev 
mailing list quite a while ago. Personally I do not have a build environment 
for Win32.

There was once a description on how to use Microsoft's free compiler 
together with (patched) DistUtils to build extension modules for Win32. But 
I don't have the spare time for working on it.

Ciao, Michael.