On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Aly Tawfik <aly.taw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 20, 12:44 pm, sewpafly <sewpa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was able to a little further by changing 2 lines in Makefile.pre.in. >> >> On line 170, changed: >> DLLLIBRARY= @DLLLIBRARY@ >> to: >> DLLLIBRARY= libpython$(VERSION).dll >> >> On line 509 it had: >> $(DLLLIBRARY) libpython$(VERSION).dll.a: $(LIBRARY_OBJS) >> >> which I changed to: >> $(DLLLIBRARY) libpython$(LDVERSION).dll.a: $(LIBRARY_OBJS) >> >> Compile finishes with: >> Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules >> were not found: >> _gdbm _sqlite3 _tkinter >> nis ossaudiodev spwd >> To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for >> the module's name. >> >> Failed to build these modules: >> _curses _curses_panel >> >> But 'make test' returns many errors. >> >> I'm thinking I'll try Python 3.1 instead. > > I, too, am facing the same problem. Which version of Python 3.1 did > you install, and did it work? Thanks! > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Cygwin is not really a supported platform. Reverting to Python 3.1 won't help at all. Download the 2.6.5 source version (i.e., click the Src box) using cygwin setup. Apply the included patches [some don't apply cleanly any more]. That will get you most of the way there. There are a few other issues the details of which I don't remember. I'm not sure why there hasn't been a cygwin distribution lately. You might ask on the cygwin mailing list. [Ultimately somebody with an interest in cygwin will need to get active in python development. I've been meaning to do this but life gets in the way.] DR -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
