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Reini Urban wrote:
> extern __declspec(dllexport) cannot be used as constant during
> compile-time.
> => "initializer element is not constant"
> cygwin auto-import feature get's that right at link-time.
> 
> This is needed for the constant (compile-time) resolution of
> PyObject_HEAD_INIT(&PyType_Type) in a typical PyTypeObject struct.

I believe the commonly accepted solution is to change this to
PyObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL) in the struct.

http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/toext/node20.html


Yaakov


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