[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 23:12:34 CET 2007

On 23/11/2007, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

bsddb is automatically build by a build step. But you have to convert the project files in buildwin32 to VS 2008 first. Simply open the solution file and let VS convert the projects.

VS 2008 Express doesn't have a devenv command, so the pre-link step doesn't work. You need to open the bsddb project file, and build db_static by hand. For a debug Python, you need the Debug configuration, for a release Python you need the Release configuration. Beware - the default config is Debug_ASCII which is not checked by the pre-link step.

So, from a checkout of Python, plus the various svn externals:

You'll get a total of 2 failures and 18 successes. Of the failures, one (_sqlite3) is not actually fatal (the pre-link step fails, and that only the first time), and the module is actually built correctly. The other is _tkinter, which isn't sorted out yet.

You can then run the tests with rt.bat. If you have an openssl.exe on your path, test_socket_ssl may hang. Otherwise, everything should pass, apart from test_tcl. (Actually, there's a failure in test_doctest right now, seems to have come in with r59137, but I don't have time to diagnose right now).

This is the case for both trunk and py3k (ignoring genuine test failures).

Paul.

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