[qmtest] Building platform-specific extension modules

[Mark Mitchell]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:

>Does anyone know the proper way to teach distutils/qmdist that a
>particular extension module should only be built on certain (i.e.,
>POSIX) platforms?
>
>Is it as easy as modifying the ext_modules= argument to setup()
>depending on the platform that setup.py is being run on?  I'm having
>worries about things like building source distributions and such.
>  
>
I don't know how to do this.

One ugly-hack approach would be to wrap the extension module in:

  #ifndef _WIN32
  ...
  #endif

and just let it be empty on Windows.

If you get something that you think will work, we can easily try it out 
on Windows.

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