[Python-Dev] Build Notes for building trunk with Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 20:25:43 CET 2007

On 23/11/2007, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

On 2007-11-23 18:40, Christian Heimes wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Why not include the prebuilt libraries of all external libs in SVN >> as well ? > > For one I'm still using Beta 2 of the standard edition and I'm not > allowed to distribute binaries build with the Beta. With the new > pre-build steps it's also very easy to build the dependencies. I don't > like to add more binaries to the svn repos.

Fair enough - was just thinking that people compiling Python on Windows are probably more interested in compiling the Python code itself, rather than getting the 3rd party tools to compile :-)

I'd agree with that, but for the ones I've tried so far, Christian has made it simple enough that it's not really an issue - you simply svn export the externals, and then the build just works.

It's possible that TCL/Tk may be harder (particularly as there are 3 packages, TCL, Tk and Tix) - if so, then having binaries for that may be useful. But for the rest, it makes little difference.

Paul.

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