On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Alexey Luchko <l...@ank-sia.com> wrote: > I've tried to build Python 2.7.3rc2 on cygwin and got the following errors: > > $ CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/ncursesw/ CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/ncursesw/ > ./configure I haven't tried 2.7.3 yet, so I'll describe my experience with 2.7.2 I use /usr/include/ncurses rather than /usr/include/ncursesw I don't remember what the difference is but ncurses seems to work.
> $ make > ... > gcc -shared -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base > build/temp.cygwin-1.7.11-i686-2.7/Python-2.7.3rc2/Modules/_io/bufferedio.o > build/temp.cygwin-1.7.11-i686-2.7/Python-2.7.3rc2/Modules/_io/bytesio.o > build/temp.cygwin-1.7.11-i686-2.7/Python-2.7.3rc2/Modules/_io/fileio.o > build/temp.cygwin-1.7.11-i686-2.7/Python-2.7.3rc2/Modules/_io/iobase.o > build/temp.cygwin-1.7.11-i686-2.7/Python-2.7.3rc2/Modules/_io/_iomodule.o > build/temp.cygwin-1.7.11-i686-2.7/Python-2.7.3rc2/Modules/_io/stringio.o > build/temp.cygwin-1.7.11-i686-2.7/Python-2.7.3rc2/Modules/_io/textio.o > -L/usr/local/lib -L. -lpython2.7 -o build/lib.cygwin-1.7.11-i686-2.7/_io.dll > build/temp.cygwin-1.7.11-i686-2.7/Python-2.7.3rc2/Modules/_io/bufferedio.o: > In function `_set_BlockingIOError': > /Python-2.7.3rc2/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c:579: undefined reference to > `__imp__PyExc_BlockingIOError' In Modules/_io/_iomodule.h, use: PyObject *PyExc_BlockingIOError; instead of: PyAPI_DATA(PyObject *) PyExc_BlockingIOError; > Failed to build these modules: > _curses _io > But please note that Cygwin does not support Python-2.7. There may be other reasons. I don't really use cygwin Python for anything important. It's just nice to have around since I spend a lot of time in the bash shell. It would probably be helpful to ask on the Cygwin mailing list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
