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Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) schrieb:
> 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

Indeed. That sounds better.
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Reini Urban

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