[egenix-users] mxExperimental on cygwin

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Mark McEahern wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to install mxExperimental in cygwin.  I've attached the full
> output (stdout and stderr) from:
> 
>   python setup.py install
> 
> below.
> 
> I first installed gmp on cygwin (configure; make; make install) and that
> seemed to work fine.  I can compile and run the example.c program from gmp's
> install docs.  I have the gmp libraries in /usr/local/lib:
> 
>   $ ls -l /usr/local/lib
>   total 2538
>   -rw-r--r--    1 mark     None      2597856 Sep 19 15:32 libgmp.a
>   -rw-r--r--    1 mark     None          645 Sep 19 15:32 libgmp.la
> 
> I'm not sure whether the reason the setup.py is failing is because it can't
> find libgmp, but it looks like that.  How do I tell mxExperimental's
> setup.py that libgmp is in /usr/local/lib, assuming that's the problem (and
> solution)?

First: are you using the beta1 of egenix-mx-experimental ?
If not, please try that version first. setup.py should look in
/usr/local/lib per default, so no special options are needed.

Makes me think: I should probably ship a new beta of that
package...

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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