[Python-Dev] ctypes is in SVN now. (original) (raw)

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Thu Mar 9 17:27:56 CET 2006

Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:

I discussed with Martin a bit about the opportunity of generating .vcproj files with a script-driven tool. I'm going to try and setup something as soon as I find some spare time. Ideally this would be integrated with distutils because the setup-script has most of the information that's needed. OTOH, extensions could be built with distutils even for core Python, and even on Windows. For extensions that are not builtin or not included with Python itself distutils works good enough.

I fear this is an orthogonal change. Alas, using distutils to build core extensions is not something I'm ready to tackle at the moment.

I was just thiking of something much more naive like using a free tool to build .vcproj/.sln (see www.cmake.org for instance) from a script description. With such a tool, it would be very easy to build a .pyd file around a self-contained .c file (like _heapqmodule.c, etc.), it would mostly be a couple of line changes in the script file, and then re-run the tool executable to regenerate vcproj/sln. OTOH, both the tool executable (cmake.exe in this example) and the current version of the generated vcproj/sln files would be committed in SVN under PCbuild, so to have a minimal impact on developer habits.

Giovanni Bajo

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