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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:12:00 +0100
From: Bob Cowdery <bob AT bobcowdery DOT plus DOT com>
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Dave

Thank you very much. I shall not forget -v now. It told me straight away 
that I had stupidly forgotten to install the cygwin gcc but did have 
MinGW gcc on the path which of course only understands Windows paths.

Regards
Bob

Dave Korn wrote:
> Bob Cowdery wrote:
>   
>> Either I'm too impatient, the question is too trivial for people to
>> bother with or too complex or lacking information to be answerable. As
>> I've not posted to this group before and have hardly used Cygwin I've no
>> idea which of the above is true. Anybody... please.
>>     
>
>   Complex and lacking information.  I've never heard of Cython or Pyrex, but
> if you could manage to cut your failing compile down to a really simple
> testcase that anyone can reproduce, you'll get a lot more help a lot quicker.
>
>   
>>> part of the compile. I installed Pyrex and have tried to build a
>>> minimal Python module but gcc can't seem to locate the python header
>>> files. They are there and the -I points to the right place
>>> '-I/usr/include/python2.5'. In that directory is Python.h which it
>>> can't find.
>>>       
>
>   Copy and paste the failing command line from your build logs into a bash
> shell, adding the "-v" flag.  If the list of search paths that shows you
> doesn't help, try making a copy of the failing .c file, but snip out
> everything after the #include statements at the top, and try compiling that
> (with the same command-line, just change the name of the .c file it mentions).
>  If that also doesn't work, post the commandline and the cut-down .c file here.
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
>
>
>
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