[Python-Dev] Non-Visual Studio builds on Windows XP? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Jul 18 01:05:17 CEST 2004

Nick Coghlan wrote:

I'm probably missing something obvious, but what can I use to interpret the vcproj build files?

devenv.exe, and only devenv.exe. You need Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 to interpret these files.

That said: they are XML files, so you can interpret them with notepad.exe also.

Garth wrote a set of Python scripts that attempt to interpret these files as a build process:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-February/042595.html

Regards, Martin

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