Issue #1706: Require Windows 2000+

Added Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULES macro to set WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION to Windows 2000 for core modules, too
Added -d option to build.bat (same as -c Debug) and fixed warning about /build option
Updated Windows related readme.txt files

2 files changed, 19 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/PC/pyconfig.h b/PC/pyconfig.h
index 560818f..1892cf1 100644
--- a/PC/pyconfig.h
+++ b/PC/pyconfig.h
@@ -158,10 +158,12 @@ WIN32 is still required for the locale module.
 /* set the version macros for the windows headers */
 #ifdef MS_WINX64
 /* 64 bit only runs on XP or greater */
-#define Py_WINVER 0x0501
+#define Py_WINVER _WIN32_WINNT_WINXP
+#define Py_NTDDI NTDDI_WINXP
 #else
-/* NT 4.0 or greater required otherwise */
-#define Py_WINVER 0x0400
+/* Python 2.6+ requires Windows 2000 or greater */
+#define Py_WINVER _WIN32_WINNT_WIN2K
+#define Py_NTDDI NTDDI_WIN2KSP4
 #endif
 
 /* We only set these values when building Python - we don't want to force
@@ -171,7 +173,10 @@ WIN32 is still required for the locale module.
    structures etc so it can optionally use new Windows features if it
    determines at runtime they are available.
 */
-#ifdef Py_BUILD_CORE
+#if defined(Py_BUILD_CORE) || defined(Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE)
+#ifndef NTDDI_VERSION
+#define NTDDI_VERSION Py_NTDDI
+#endif
 #ifndef WINVER
 #define WINVER Py_WINVER
 #endif
diff --git a/PC/readme.txt b/PC/readme.txt
index f1db9d3..b5a5a87 100644
--- a/PC/readme.txt
+++ b/PC/readme.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 Welcome to the "PC" subdirectory of the Python distribution
 ***********************************************************
 
-*** Note: the project files for MS VC++ 7.1 are now in the
-*** PCbuild directory.  See the file readme.txt there for build
-*** instructions.  There is some information below that might
-*** still be relevant.
-
 This "PC" subdirectory contains complete project files to make
 several older PC ports of Python, as well as all the PC-specific
 Python source files.  It should be located in the root of the
@@ -79,18 +74,23 @@ dllbase_nt.txt A (manually maintained) list of base addresses for
 example_nt     A subdirectory showing how to build an extension as a
                DLL.
 
-Visual Studio 6.0
-=================
-The subdirectory VC6 contains Visual Studio 6 project files. These
-were originally located in the PCBuild directory, but are no longer
-maintained.
+Legacy support for older versions of Visual Studio
+==================================================
+The subdirectories VC6, VS7.1 and VS8.0 contain legacy support older
+versions of Microsoft Visual Studio. See PCbuild/readme.txt.
+
+EMX development tools for OS/2
+==============================
 
+See os2emx/readme.txt. This platform is maintained by Andrew MacIntyre.
 
 IBM VisualAge C/C++ for OS/2
 ============================
 
 See os2vacpp/readme.txt.  This platform is supported by Jeff Rush.
 
+NOTE: Support for os2vacpp may be dropped in the near future. Please move
+      to EMX.
 
 Note for Windows 3.x and DOS users
 ==================================