On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:08:14PM -0400, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> When I run setup.py install on Windows, I get an error that cl.exe
> cannot be found.  (cl.exe is the name of the windows C compiler.)

You need to comment out the line:

    kw['ext_modules'].append(htmltext)

in setup.py.  Perhaps we should change it so the default it to not
compile _c_htmltext on Windows.

> If this is the correct behavior, how can I build an installer for
> Windows users that don't have cl.exe?

Perhaps it's not in the PATH.  I'm not a Windows expert though.

BTW,  I've heard that Microsoft's C++ command line tools are free to
download.

  Neil