| 1 | Building Python using VC++ 8.0
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| 2 | -------------------------------------
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| 3 | This directory is used to build Python for Win32 platforms, e.g. Windows
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| 4 | 95, 98 and NT. It requires Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0
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| 5 | (a.k.a. Visual Studio 2005).
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| 6 | (For other Windows platforms and compilers, see ../PC/readme.txt.)
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| 7 |
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| 8 | All you need to do is open the workspace "pcbuild.sln" in MSVC++, select
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| 9 | the Debug or Release setting (using "Solution Configuration" from
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| 10 | the "Standard" toolbar"), and build the projects.
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| 11 |
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| 12 | The proper order to build subprojects:
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| 13 |
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| 14 | 1) pythoncore (this builds the main Python DLL and library files,
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| 15 | python25.{dll, lib} in Release mode)
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| 16 | NOTE: in previous releases, this subproject was
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| 17 | named after the release number, e.g. python20.
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| 18 |
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| 19 | 2) python (this builds the main Python executable,
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| 20 | python.exe in Release mode)
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| 21 |
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| 22 | 3) the other subprojects, as desired or needed (note: you probably don't
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| 23 | want to build most of the other subprojects, unless you're building an
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| 24 | entire Python distribution from scratch, or specifically making changes
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| 25 | to the subsystems they implement, or are running a Python core buildbot
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| 26 | test slave; see SUBPROJECTS below)
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| 27 |
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| 28 | When using the Debug setting, the output files have a _d added to
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| 29 | their name: python25_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on.
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| 30 |
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| 31 | SUBPROJECTS
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| 32 | -----------
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| 33 | These subprojects should build out of the box. Subprojects other than the
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| 34 | main ones (pythoncore, python, pythonw) generally build a DLL (renamed to
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| 35 | .pyd) from a specific module so that users don't have to load the code
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| 36 | supporting that module unless they import the module.
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| 37 |
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| 38 | pythoncore
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| 39 | .dll and .lib
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| 40 | pythoncore_pgo
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| 41 | .dll and .lib, a variant of pythoncore that is optimized through a
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| 42 | Profile Guided Optimization (PGO), employing pybench as the profile
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| 43 | case to optimize for. The results are produced as a python25.{dll,lib}
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| 44 | in the subfolder 'pythoncore_pgo'. To use this instead of the
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| 45 | standard Python dll place this dll with the python.exe.
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| 46 | python
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| 47 | .exe
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| 48 | pythonw
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| 49 | pythonw.exe, a variant of python.exe that doesn't pop up a DOS box
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| 50 | _socket
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| 51 | socketmodule.c
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| 52 | _testcapi
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| 53 | tests of the Python C API, run via Lib/test/test_capi.py, and
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| 54 | implemented by module Modules/_testcapimodule.c
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| 55 | pyexpat
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| 56 | Python wrapper for accelerated XML parsing, which incorporates stable
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| 57 | code from the Expat project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/
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| 58 | select
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| 59 | selectmodule.c
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| 60 | unicodedata
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| 61 | large tables of Unicode data
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| 62 | winsound
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| 63 | play sounds (typically .wav files) under Windows
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| 64 |
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| 65 | The following subprojects will generally NOT build out of the box. They
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| 66 | wrap code Python doesn't control, and you'll need to download the base
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| 67 | packages first and unpack them into siblings of PCbuilds's parent
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| 68 | directory; for example, if your PCbuild is .......\dist\src\PCbuild\,
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| 69 | unpack into new subdirectories of dist\.
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| 70 |
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| 71 | _tkinter
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| 72 | Python wrapper for the Tk windowing system. Requires building
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| 73 | Tcl/Tk first. Following are instructions for Tcl/Tk 8.4.12.
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| 74 |
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| 75 | Get source
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| 76 | ----------
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| 77 | In the dist directory, run
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| 78 | svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tcl8.4.12
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| 79 | svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tk8.4.12
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| 80 | svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tix-8.4.0
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| 81 |
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| 82 | Build Tcl first (done here w/ MSVC 7.1 on Windows XP)
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| 83 | ---------------
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| 84 | Use "Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
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| 85 | -> Visual Studio .NET Tools -> Visual Studio .NET 2003 Command Prompt"
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| 86 | to get a shell window with the correct environment settings
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| 87 | cd dist\tcl8.4.12\win
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| 88 | nmake -f makefile.vc
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| 89 | nmake -f makefile.vc INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install
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| 90 |
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| 91 | XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads?
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| 92 |
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| 93 | Optional: run tests, via
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