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authorMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2006-03-13 15:37:40 (GMT)
committerMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2006-03-13 15:37:40 (GMT)
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Fix build process of bsddb for IA64 and AMD64.
Remove remarks on size_t problems.
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@@ -212,6 +212,15 @@ _bsddb
XXX doesn't cause a test to fail when it happens (exceptions in
XXX threads are invisible to unittest).
+ Building for Win64:
+ - open a VS.NET 2003 command prompt
+ - run the SDK setenv.cmd script, passing /RETAIL and the target
+ architecture (/SRV64 for Itanium, /X64 for AMD64)
+ - build BerkeleyDB with the solution configuration matching the
+ target ("Release IA64" for Itanium, "Release AMD64" for AMD64), e.g.
+ devenv db-4.4.20\build_win32\Berkeley_DB.sln /build "Release AMD64" /project db_static /useenv
+
+
_ssl
Python wrapper for the secure sockets library.
@@ -262,10 +271,6 @@ from http://sf.net/projects/vsextcomp. The plugin will wrap cl.exe, to
locate the proper target compiler, and convert compiler options
accordingly.
-The Itanium build has seen little testing. The SDK compiler reports a lot
-of warnings about conversion from size_t to int, which will be fixed in
-future Python releases.
-
Building for AMD64
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