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Building Python using VC++ 6.0 or 5.0
-------------------------------------
This directory is used to build Python for Win32 platforms, e.g. Windows
-95, 98 and NT. It requires Microsoft Visual C++ 6.x or 5.x.
+2000 and XP. It requires Microsoft Visual C++ 6.x or 5.x and Platform
+SDK February 2003 Edition (Core SDK). You can download this SDK from
+http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm.
(For other Windows platforms and compilers, see ../readme.txt.)
All you need to do is open the workspace "pcbuild.dsw" in MSVC++, select
@@ -11,9 +13,7 @@ and build the projects.
The proper order to build subprojects:
1) pythoncore (this builds the main Python DLL and library files,
- python21.{dll, lib} in Release mode)
- NOTE: in previous releases, this subproject was
- named after the release number, e.g. python20.
+ python30.{dll, lib} in Release mode)
2) python (this builds the main Python executable,
python.exe in Release mode)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The proper order to build subprojects:
to the subsystems they implement; see SUBPROJECTS below)
When using the Debug setting, the output files have a _d added to
-their name: python21_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on.
+their name: python30_d.dll, python_d.exe, pyexpat_d.pyd, and so on.
SUBPROJECTS
-----------
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ python
.exe
pythonw
pythonw.exe, a variant of python.exe that doesn't pop up a DOS box
+_msi
+ _msi.c. You need to install Windows Installer SDK to build this module.
_socket
socketmodule.c
_testcapi
@@ -177,6 +179,17 @@ _bsddb
XXX threads are invisible to unittest).
+_sqlite3
+ Python wrapper for SQLite library.
+
+ Get the source code through
+
+ svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/sqlite-source-3.3.4
+
+ To use the extension module in a Python build tree, copy sqlite3.dll into
+ the PC/VC6 folder.
+
+
_ssl
Python wrapper for the secure sockets library.