> 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.

I really don't know much about distutils (yet), so I don't know if this is a
worthwhile suggestion, but is this something that could simply be handled by
a try/except, perhaps printing a warning if the python version (vs. the C
version) was being used?  That would simplify things for windows users
without a [working] C compiler, especially those trying Quixote out for the
first time.


Jason Sibre