[lxml-dev] Failure to Compile on Windows

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi Sidnei,

finally coming back to this.

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 07:09:13PM -0300, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> | I've got pretty far with setting up the dependencies and all but after
> | that the compilation failed with this error. Anyone have a clue? Looks
> | like it's missing some .h that 'nano http' depends on.
> 
> FWIW, I've got past that. It was missing Ws2_32.lib.
> 
> I've managed to build lxml with python trunk, but when running the
> tests I've got a fatal error due to a negative refcount to a tuple
> (!).
> 
> I think I will disable running lxml tests with python trunk, unless
> someone wants to digg into this.

Thanks for setting this up. The fact that it's a tuple does not necessarily
mean it's a Python problem. Could you come up with a stack trace or at least
the test name that triggered it? Try running test.py -v.

Stefan