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@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ Solution" or F6 takes care of dependencies except for x64 builds. To make
cross compiling x64 builds on a 32bit OS possible the x64 builds require a
32bit version of Python.
-
NOTE:
You probably don't want to build most of the other subprojects, unless
you're building an entire Python distribution from scratch, or
@@ -192,10 +191,11 @@ _bsddb
svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/db-4.4.20
Next open the solution file db-4.4.20\build_win32\Berkeley_DB.sln with
- Visual Studio and convert the projects to the new format. The standard
- and professional version of VS 2008 builds the necessary libraries
- in a pre-link step of _bsddb. However the express edition is missing
- some pieces and you have to build the libs yourself.
+ Visual Studio and convert the projects to the new format. VS 2008
+ builds the necessary libraries in a pre-link step of _bsddb. You
+ have to add "$(VCInstallDir)vcpackages" to the search path first
+ (Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories,
+ Platform: Win32, Show directories for: Executable files).
The _bsddb subprojects depends only on the db_static project of
Berkeley DB. You have to choose either "Release", "Release AMD64", "Debug"