Build the bzip2.lib as a custom pre-link step in MSVC.
diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt
index b7e1f32..4cacc9a 100644
--- a/PCbuild/readme.txt
+++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt
@@ -148,19 +148,14 @@
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.
+ A custom pre-link step in the bz2 project settings should manage to
+ build bzip2-1.0.2\libbz2.lib by magic before bz2.pyd (or bz2_d.pyd) is
+ linked in PCbuild\.
+ However, the bz2 project is not smart enough to remove anything under
+ bzip2-1.0.2\ when you do a clean, so if you want to rebuild bzip2.lib
+ you need to clean up bzip2-1.0.2\ by hand.
- 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
- before running nmake (this batch file is in your MSVC installation).
- 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 shouldn't yield any warnings or errors, and should end
+ The build 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