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diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt index 5073a41..5c8fdf6 100644 --- a/PCbuild/readme.txt +++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt @@ -71,10 +71,53 @@ directory; for example, if your PCbuild is .......\dist\src\PCbuild\, unpack into new subdirectories of dist\. _tkinter - Python wrapper for the Tk windowing system. Requires tcl832.exe from - http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/downloadnow83.html - Run the installer, forcing installation into dist\Tcl. - Be sure to install everything, including the Tcl/Tk header files. + Python wrapper for the Tk windowing system. Requires building + Tcl/Tk first. Following are instructions for Tcl/Tk 8.4.1: + + Get source + ---------- + Go to + http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/ + and download + tcl841-src.zip + tk841-src.zip + Unzip into + dist\tcl8.4.1\ + dist\tk\8.4.1\ + respectively. + + Build Tcl first (done here w/ MSVC 6 on Win2K) + ---------------------------------------------- + cd dist\tcl8.4.1\win + run vcvars32.bat [necessary even on Win2K] + nmake -f makefile.vc + nmake -f makefile.vc INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcl84 install + + XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads? + + XXX Some tests failed in "nmake -f makefile.vc test". + + XXX Should rename destination directory to something more generic + XXX then tcl84. But unless I can backport 8.3.4 to the 2.2 line + XXX too, I've got to be able to build using more than oneX Tcl/Tk + XXX release, and that effectively reserves the "tcl" directory name + XXX for the duration. Nothing that requires thought is going to + XXX work when it comes to release crunch times. + + + Build Tk + ------- + cd dist\tk8.4.1\win + nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.1 + nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.1 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcl84 install + + XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads? + + XXX Some tests failed in "nmake -f makefile.vc test". + + XXX Our installer copies a lot of stuff out of the Tcl/Tk install + XXX directory. Is all of that really needed for Python use of Tcl/Tk? + zlib Python wrapper for the zlib compression library. Get the source code @@ -92,13 +135,15 @@ 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 + Unpack into dist\bzip2-1.0.2. WARNING: If you're 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. + 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 @@ -106,11 +151,12 @@ bz2 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 + The make step shouldn't 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. |