Built windows installers and Cygwin

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Nov 22 20:33:49 EST 2005


SPE - Stani's Python Editor wrote:
> Is there any way for these kind of installers to be used with cygwin.

No. The bdist_wininst packages link against Microsoft's C library;
the cygwin Python against Cygwin's.

If there is no native code in the package, it would be possible to
*use* them - installing them still won't work. To use them, unzip
them, and spread the files as you see fit.

Regards,
Martin



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