[lxml-dev] Building LXML Trunk

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi Sidnei,

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> I've tried to build lxml from trunk today, on Win32.  Got the following error:
> 
> src\lxml\etree.c(880) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'
> src\lxml\etree.c(881) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'
> src\lxml\etree.c(882) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'
> src\lxml\etree.c(883) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'
> 
> Any clue? Smells like a Pyrex issue?

Looks like it, yes. The problem lies in the following lines:

  void ((*registerGlobalFunctions)(struct __pyx_obj_5etree__BaseContext *,void
(*),int ((void (*),PyObject *,PyObject *))));
  void ((*registerLocalFunctions)(struct __pyx_obj_5etree__BaseContext *,void
(*),int ((void (*),PyObject *,PyObject *))));
  PyObject *((*unregisterAllFunctions)(struct __pyx_obj_5etree__BaseContext
*,void (*),int ((void (*),PyObject *,PyObject *))));
  PyObject *((*unregisterGlobalFunctions)(struct __pyx_obj_5etree__BaseContext
*,void (*),int ((void (*),PyObject *,PyObject *))));

These are new in lxml 1.3. Looks like MS's "C" compiler can't handle that.

Any idea how we could get this to work? I mean, without the obvious approach
of switching to MinGW. :)

Stefan