[z3-five] Re: Five under Windows

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jeroen Janssen wrote:
> Well, the reason I asked was because I initially did a checkout of 
> zope3, and tried pointing the path to it's "src" (as described in the 
> INSTALL.txt).
> 
> However I soon found out that the 'src' directory of zope3 does not 
> contain any binaries. (here binaries means the python extensions that 
> need to be build with a C compiler).
> 
> Example: \Zope3\src\zope\proxy contains a _zope_proxy_proxy.c that is 
> apparently needed.
> 
> So does someone on linux need to perform a build (with a C compiler) 
> generating _zope_proxy_proxy.so before they can use the zope3 stuff?

Yes; on a Linux/Unix machine, you download or checkout Zope3 sources and 
then type 'make' or 'python setup.py build_ext -i' and the binaries are 
generated.

For Windows, there is a nice howto at 
http://www.mxm.dk/papers/run-z3-cvs-wthout-compiler/. There are also 
binaries available on this site, but I have no idea how recent they are.

Tim Peters at some point provided Zope3 binaries for Windows, I think on 
a daily updated basis. You can get them here:
http://zope.org/Members/tim_one/Zope3-pyd.zip

Philipp