[lxml-dev] Building LXML Trunk

[Sidnei da Silva]

I don't have an idea myself, but I can ask Mark to take a look at it.
My shallow C experience is not enough to parse that. :)

On 5/23/07, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> 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
>


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