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diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt index c7e3c72..e749429 100644 --- a/PCbuild/readme.txt +++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Building Python using VC++ 9.0 +Building Python using VC++ 10.0 ------------------------------ This directory is used to build Python for Win32 and x64 platforms, e.g. @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ NOTE: running a Python core buildbot test slave; see SUBPROJECTS below) When using the Debug setting, the output files have a _d added to -their name: python32_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on. Both +their name: python33_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on. Both the build and rt batch files accept a -d option for debug builds. The 32bit builds end up in the solution folder PCbuild while the x64 builds @@ -62,17 +62,11 @@ PC/VS8.0/ C RUNTIME --------- -Visual Studio 2008 uses version 9 of the C runtime (MSVCRT9). The executables -are linked to a CRT "side by side" assembly which must be present on the target -machine. This is avalible under the VC/Redist folder of your visual studio -distribution. On XP and later operating systems that support -side-by-side assemblies it is not enough to have the msvcrt90.dll present, -it has to be there as a whole assembly, that is, a folder with the .dll -and a .manifest. Also, a check is made for the correct version. -Therefore, one should distribute this assembly with the dlls, and keep -it in the same directory. For compatibility with older systems, one should -also set the PATH to this directory so that the dll can be found. -For more info, see the Readme in the VC/Redist folder. +Visual Studio 2010 uses version 10 of the C runtime (MSVCRT9). The executables +no longer use the "Side by Side" assemblies used in previous versions of the +compiler. This simplifies distribution of applications. +The run time libraries are avalible under the VC/Redist folder of your visual studio +distribution. For more info, see the Readme in the VC/Redist folder. SUBPROJECTS ----------- @@ -92,6 +86,9 @@ _socket _testcapi tests of the Python C API, run via Lib/test/test_capi.py, and implemented by module Modules/_testcapimodule.c +_testbuffer + buffer protocol tests, run via Lib/test/test_buffer.py, and + implemented by module Modules/_testbuffer.c pyexpat Python wrapper for accelerated XML parsing, which incorporates stable code from the Expat project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/ @@ -112,9 +109,9 @@ _tkinter pre-built Tcl/Tk in either ..\..\tcltk for 32-bit or ..\..\tcltk64 for 64-bit (relative to this directory). See below for instructions to build Tcl/Tk. -bz2 - Python wrapper for the libbz2 compression library. Homepage - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/ +_bz2 + Python wrapper for the libbzip2 compression library. Homepage + http://www.bzip.org/ Download the source from the python.org copy into the dist directory: @@ -133,13 +130,19 @@ bz2 All of this managed to build libbz2.lib in bzip2-1.0.6\$platform-$configuration\, which the Python project links in. +_lzma + Python wrapper for the liblzma compression library. + + Download the pre-built Windows binaries from http://tukaani.org/xz/, and + extract to ..\xz-5.0.3. If you are using a more recent version of liblzma, + it will be necessary to rename the directory from xz-<VERSION> to xz-5.0.3. _ssl Python wrapper for the secure sockets library. Get the source code through - svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/openssl-1.0.0j + svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/openssl-1.0.1c ** NOTE: if you use the Tools\buildbot\external(-amd64).bat approach for obtaining external sources then you don't need to manually get the source |