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diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt index f8257e3..80e5733 100644 --- a/PCbuild/readme.txt +++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt @@ -287,6 +287,21 @@ _ssl build_ssl.py/MSVC isn't clever enough to clean OpenSSL - you must do this by hand. +Building for Itanium +-------------------- + +The project files support a ReleaseItanium configuration which creates +Win64/Itanium binaries. For this to work, you need to install the Platform +SDK, in particular the 64-bit support. This includes an Itanium compiler +(future releases of the SDK likely include an AMD64 compiler as well). +In addition, you need the Visual Studio plugin for external C compilers, +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. YOUR OWN EXTENSION DLLs ----------------------- |