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On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:46:27AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, I concur too.

Jason

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