Problem building extension under Cygwin (ImportError: Bad address)

[Lars]

Thanks Jason, it works now.

There seems to be some sort of issue with ld in cygwin when compiling
shared libraries (e.g. DLL's).
This worked on my Cygwin installation also:

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gcc hello.c -I/usr/include/python2.4/ -L/usr/lib/python2.4/config/
-lpython2.4 -shared -o hello.dll
python hellouse.py
(gives the right answer)
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But first compiling hello.c with gcc, then linking it with gnu-ld just
won't work. I only really need to compile one C-file to a shared
library so it doesn't matter so much for me. But bigger projects will
have a problem..

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gcc -c hello.c -I/usr/include/python2.4/
ld -shared hello.o -o hello.so -L /usr/lib/python2.4/config -lpython2.4
-lc
python hellouse.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "hellouse.py", line 1, in ?
    import hello
ImportError: Bad address
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-Lars