[pyicu-dev] pyicu with python 2.3 under windows

[Andi Vajda]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Wolfgang Langner wrote:

> is there a binary release of pyicu 0.6 for python version 2.3 on windows ?

I didn't build one, no.

> Why is there no setup.py available to support the standard python build ?

Because the build used to be a lot more complicated in the days of SWIG.
Since version 0.5, SWIG is no longer used so it should be pretty simple to 
write one. Would you like to submit a patch ?
(on windows, be sure to use the /Zc:wchar_t compiler flag).

> Is it possible to use the makefile for building a version that supports nativ
> python 2.3 under windows (not cygwin) ?

The PyICU Makefile is a GNU makefile.
If you don't want to install cygwin, try our minimal cygwin package:
     http://builds.osafoundation.org/external/windows/mincyg.zip

Andi..