[Python-Dev] More detailed build instructions for Windows (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Jul 4 00:40:47 CEST 2010

Am 03.07.2010 16:34, schrieb Christian Heimes:

Am 03.07.2010 09:00, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis":

I'm trying to test out a patch to add a timeout in subprocess.py on Windows, so I need to build Python with Visual Studio. The docs say the files in PCBuild/ work with VC 9 and newer.

Which docs did you look at specifically that said "and newer"? That would be a bug. The readme.txt in the PCbuild directory contains the sentence "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition is required at the very least". The wording could be interpreted as "2008 at very least" instead of "Express Edition at very least".

That's what I expected to get as an answer - interestingly enough, Reid was looking at some other place (the FAQ) that literally said "and newer". I'd call that an error, even though, technically, converting the projects to VS 2010 "ought to work" (i.e. it did after I committed some fixes to make it work).

Regards, Martin

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