Dulwich C extensions and stand-alone Windows installation of bzr

[Martin Pool]

On 9 September 2011 17:54, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:

> Let me put it another way.  There are 3 C files in dulwich.  Normally,
> to make a DLL from them would be a 15-second job, even if I had to
> type the compilation/link command by hand.  All I need is a few
> sentences of instructions in some README and a few header files.
> Instead, I need to install the exact version of Python used to produce
> the bzr I have, or maybe switch to using Python-based bzr
> installation, and then go figure out myself how to compile with GCC
> instead of MSVC.

What actually goes wrong when you try to make a DLL in the 'normal'
way?  Are you speaking of building Python extensions, or other DLLs?

m