[lxml-dev] Using, or building, lxml in Windows with Cygwin

[Stefan Behnel]

David Antliff wrote:
> I am trying to get the Windows lxml egg to work with Cygwin, Python 2.5.2
> on WindowsXP, 32bit. I wasn't able to find a Cygwin package for lxml so
> I felt I needed to obtain or build a win32 version of lxml. I want to
> use the xpath
> functionality that lxml provides in python scripts, running in Cygwin.
>
> *** All commands below are issued in a Cygwin bash shell ***

Any reason why you use the Cygwin Python installation instead of a normal
Windows build?

I never tried building lxml on Windows myself, but with Cygwin, you may
get away with installing the developer packages of libxml2 and libxslt, or
with simply passing "--static-deps" as described for the MacOS build.
MinGW should work, but you need to configure it in your distutils.cfg:

  [build]
  compiler=mingw32

http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#location-and-names-of-config-files

If you get it to work, please report anything you had to do to the list.
Or even better: write a little section for this file:

http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/trunk/doc/build.txt

Please ask back if you run into further problems.

Stefan