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diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt index ffdef46..061b7af 100644 --- a/PCbuild/readme.txt +++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt @@ -1,40 +1,98 @@ -Building Python using VC++ 5.0 or 6.0 +Building Python using VC++ 6.0 or 5.0 ------------------------------------- - -This directory is used to build Python for Win32 platforms, -e.g. Windows 95, 98 and NT. It requires Microsoft Visual C++ 6.x -or 5.x. +This directory is used to build Python for Win32 platforms, e.g. Windows +95, 98 and NT. It requires Microsoft Visual C++ 6.x or 5.x. (For other Windows platforms and compilers, see ../PC/readme.txt.) +XXX There are still (Python 2.0b1) a few compiler warnings under VC6. +XXX There are likely a few more under VC5. + +Unlike older versions, there's no longer a need to copy the project files +from a subdirectory of PC/ to the PCbuild directory -- they come in PCbuild. -Unlike previous versions, there's no longer a need to copy the project -files from the PC/vc5x subdirectory to the PCbuild directory -- they -come in PCbuild. +All you need to do is open the workspace "pcbuild.dsw" in MSVC++, select +the Debug or Release setting (using Build -> Set Active Configuration...), +and build the projects. -All you need to do is open the workspace "pcbuild.dsw" in MSVC++, -select the Debug or Release setting (using Set Active -Configuration... in the Build menu), and build the projects. +The proper order to build subprojects is: -The proper order to build is +1) python20 (this builds the main Python DLL and library files, + python20.{dll, lib}) -1) python16 (this builds python16.dll and python16.lib) -2) python (this builds python.exe) -3) the other subprojects +2) python (this builds the main Python executable, python.exe) -Some subprojects require that you have distributions of other -software: Tcl/Tk, bsddb and zlib. If you don't have these, you can't -build the corresponding extensions. If you do have them, you may have -to change the project settings to point to the right include files, -libraries etc. +3) the other subprojects, as desired or needed (note: you probably don't + want to build most of the other subprojects, unless you're building an + entire Python distribution from scratch, or specifically making changes + to the subsystems they implement; see SUBPROJECTS below) When using the Debug setting, the output files have a _d added to -their name: python16_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on. +their name: python20_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on. + +SUBPROJECTS +----------- +These subprojects should build out of the box. Subprojects other than the +main ones (python20, python, pythonw) generally build a DLL (renamed to +.pyd) from a specific module so that users don't have to load the code +supporting that module unless they import the module. + +python20 + .dll and .lib +python + .exe +pythonw + pythonw.exe, a variant of python.exe that doesn't pop up a DOS box +_socket + socketmodule.c +_sre + Unicode-aware regular expression engine +mmap + mmapmodule.c +parser + the parser module +select + selectmodule.c +unicodedata + large tables of Unicode data +winreg + Windows registry API +winsound + play sounds (typically .wav files) under Windows + +The following subprojects will generally NOT build out of the box. They +wrap code Python doesn't control, and you'll need to download the base +packages first (study the subproject structure from within MSVC to see +where each expects to find the unpacked packages): + +_tkinter + Python wrapper for the Tk windowing system. Requires tcl831.exe from + http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/downloadnow83.tml + +zlib + Python wrapper for the zlib compression library. Requires + http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/zlib133dll.zip + and + ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/src/zlib133.zip + +bsddb + Python wrapper for the BSD database 1.85. Requires bsddbmodule.zip, + from the bsddb link at + http://www.nightmare.com/software.html + +pyexpat + Python wrapper for accelerated XML parsing. Requires + ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/expat.zip + + +NOTE ON CONFIGURATIONS +---------------------- +Under Build -> Configuration ..., you'll find several Alpha configurations, +such as "Win32 Alpha Release". These do not refer to alpha versions (as in +alpha, beta, final), but to the DEC/COMPAQ Alpha processor. Ignore them if +you're not building on an Alpha box. -If you want to create your own extension module DLL, there's an -example with easy-to-follow instructions in ../PC/example/; read the -file readme.txt there first. -Pointers: -Python http://www.python.org -Tcl/Tk http://dev.scriptics.com -zlib http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll -bsddb Sam Rushing's web/ftp site +YOUR OWN EXTENSION DDLs +----------------------- +If you want to create your own extension module DLL, there's an example +with easy-to-follow instructions in ../PC/example/; read the file +readme.txt there first. |