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diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt index 0109317..5073a41 100644 --- a/PCbuild/readme.txt +++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt @@ -88,6 +88,34 @@ zlib zlib-1.1.4\ when you do a clean, so if you want to rebuild zlib.lib you need to clean up zlib-1.1.4\ by hand. +bz2 + Python wrapper for the libbz2 compression library. Homepage + http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/ + Download the source tarball, bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz. + Unpack into dist\bzip2-1.0.2. WARNING: If you using WinZip, you + must disable its "TAR file smart CR/LF conversion" feature (under + Options -> Configuration -> Miscellaneous -> Other) for the duration. + Don't bother trying to use libbz2.dsp with MSVC. After 10 minutes + of fiddling, I couldn't get it to work. Perhaps it works with + MSVC 5 (I used MSVC 6). It's better to run the by-hand makefile + anyway, because it runs a helpful test step at the end. + cd into dist\bzip2-1.0.2, and run + nmake -f makefile.msc + [Note that if you're running Win9X, you'll need to run vcvars32.bat + before running nmake (this batch file is in your MSVC installation). + TODO: make this work like zlib (in particular, MSVC runs the prelink + step in an enviroment that already has the correct envars set up). + ] + The make step should yield any warnings or errors, and should end + by displaying 6 blocks each terminated with + FC: no differences encountered + If FC finds differences, see the warning abou WinZip above (when I + first tried it, sample3.ref failed due to CRLF conversion). + All of this managed to build bzip2-1.0.2\libbz2.lib, which the Python + project links in. + + + bsddb Python wrapper for the BSD database 1.85. Requires db.1.85.win32.zip, from the "bsd db" link at |