m-turk@[...].edu (Matthew Turk) wrote in news:slrn9mdold.1snq.m-
turk@dhcp101054.res-hall.nwu.edu:
>  Hi there.  I'm working on some 'back-end' stuff that I'm doing in C -
>  and I'm struggling through compiling it properly, which is an entirely
>  different question.

i can try my makefile

that's a example on using DDE:
http://www.geocities.com/chrisliechti/en/python/spam2.0.zip

>  
>  Essentially, I want to be able to use it on computers that don't run
>  Cygwin.  Is this going to work?  I certainly *don't* want to resort to

its needing cygwin1.dll not the entire cygwin installation - i think.

>  Visual C, since I have no idea how to operate in that environment, nor
>  do I own a copy.  I know that cygwin has the -Wno_cygwin or something
>  flag that'll compile without CYGWIN.DLL, but will that be sufficient
>  for compiling a python extension?

the extension should work either way. its just more convenient for 
distribution if you dont need to suply the cygwin stuff.

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