Fix build process of bsddb for IA64 and AMD64.
Remove remarks on size_t problems.
diff --git a/PCbuild/_bsddb.vcproj b/PCbuild/_bsddb.vcproj
index a118b02..daaa789 100644
--- a/PCbuild/_bsddb.vcproj
+++ b/PCbuild/_bsddb.vcproj
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
<Tool
Name="VCLinkerTool"
AdditionalOptions=" /MACHINE:IA64 /USELINK:MS_SDK"
- AdditionalDependencies="..\..\db-4.4.20\build_win32\Release\libdb44s.lib"
+ AdditionalDependencies="..\..\db-4.4.20\build_win32\Release_IA64\libdb44s.lib"
OutputFile="./_bsddb.pyd"
LinkIncremental="1"
SuppressStartupBanner="TRUE"
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
<Tool
Name="VCLinkerTool"
AdditionalOptions=" /MACHINE:AMD64 /USELINK:MS_SDK"
- AdditionalDependencies="..\..\db-4.4.20\build_win32\Release\libdb44s.lib"
+ AdditionalDependencies="..\..\db-4.4.20\build_win32\Release_AMD64\libdb44s.lib"
OutputFile="./_bsddb.pyd"
LinkIncremental="1"
SuppressStartupBanner="TRUE"
diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt
index db27ab9..bcd687f 100644
--- a/PCbuild/readme.txt
+++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt
@@ -212,6 +212,15 @@
XXX doesn't cause a test to fail when it happens (exceptions in
XXX threads are invisible to unittest).
+ Building for Win64:
+ - open a VS.NET 2003 command prompt
+ - run the SDK setenv.cmd script, passing /RETAIL and the target
+ architecture (/SRV64 for Itanium, /X64 for AMD64)
+ - build BerkeleyDB with the solution configuration matching the
+ target ("Release IA64" for Itanium, "Release AMD64" for AMD64), e.g.
+ devenv db-4.4.20\build_win32\Berkeley_DB.sln /build "Release AMD64" /project db_static /useenv
+
+
_ssl
Python wrapper for the secure sockets library.
@@ -262,10 +271,6 @@
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.
-
Building for AMD64
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