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| author | Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org> | 2023-08-30 13:28:58 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-08-30 13:28:58 (GMT) |
| commit | e012cf771b8d4f114bd8dbdabf10d1584764541d (patch) | |
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Document Python build requirements (#108646)
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/using/configure.rst | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst | 2 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/using/configure.rst b/Doc/using/configure.rst index 6279b0e..a16a4af 100644 --- a/Doc/using/configure.rst +++ b/Doc/using/configure.rst @@ -5,29 +5,42 @@ Configure Python Build Requirements ================== -Features required to build CPython: +Features and minimum versions required to build CPython: * A `C11 <https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/11>`_ compiler. `Optional C11 features <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_(C_standard_revision)#Optional_features>`_ are not required. +* On Windows, Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 or later is required. + * Support for `IEEE 754 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754>`_ floating point numbers and `floating point Not-a-Number (NaN) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN#Floating_point>`_. * Support for threads. -* OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer for the :mod:`ssl` and :mod:`hashlib` modules. +* OpenSSL 1.1.1 is the minimum version and OpenSSL 3.0.9 is the recommended + minimum version for the :mod:`ssl` and :mod:`hashlib` extension modules. -* On Windows, Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 or later is required. +* SQLite 3.15.2 for the :mod:`sqlite3` extension module. + +* Tcl/Tk 8.5.12 for the :mod:`tkinter` module. + +* Autoconf 2.71 and aclocal 1.16.4 are required to regenerate the + :file:`configure` script. + +.. versionchanged:: 3.13: + Autoconf 2.71, aclocal 1.16.4 and SQLite 3.15.2 are now required. .. versionchanged:: 3.11 C11 compiler, IEEE 754 and NaN support are now required. On Windows, Visual Studio 2017 or later is required. + Tcl/Tk version 8.5.12 is now required for the :mod:`tkinter` module. .. versionchanged:: 3.10 OpenSSL 1.1.1 is now required. + Require SQLite 3.7.15. .. versionchanged:: 3.7 Thread support and OpenSSL 1.0.2 are now required. @@ -37,7 +50,11 @@ Features required to build CPython: inline`` functions. .. versionchanged:: 3.5 - On Windows, Visual Studio 2015 or later is required. + On Windows, Visual Studio 2015 or later is now required. + Tcl/Tk version 8.4 is now required. + +.. versionchanged:: 3.1 + Tcl/Tk version 8.3.1 is now required. See also :pep:`7` "Style Guide for C Code" and :pep:`11` "CPython platform support". @@ -48,7 +65,7 @@ support". Configure Options ================= -List all ``./configure`` script options using:: +List all :file:`configure` script options using:: ./configure --help diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst index be5bf9a..298d5fb 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst @@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ Build Changes ============= * Autoconf 2.71 and aclocal 1.16.4 is now required to regenerate - :file:`!configure`. + the :file:`configure` script. (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :gh:`89886`.) * SQLite 3.15.2 or newer is required to build the :mod:`sqlite3` extension module. |