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r60696 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-09 20:55:22 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 5 lines
Issue #1706: Require Windows 2000+
Added Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULES macro to set WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION to Windows 2000 for core modules, too
Added -d option to build.bat (same as -c Debug) and fixed warning about /build option
Updated Windows related readme.txt files
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diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt
index 2b2d1f8..f8b3f65 100644
--- a/PCbuild/readme.txt
+++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
won't stop you from building Python.
The solution is configured to build the projects in the correct order. "Build
-Solution" or F6 takes care of dependencies except for x64 builds. To make
+Solution" or F7 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.
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
running a Python core buildbot test slave; see SUBPROJECTS below)
When using the Debug setting, the output files have a _d added to
-their name: python30_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on.
+their name: python30_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on. Both
+the build and rt batch files accept a -d option for debug builds.
The 32bit builds end up in the solution folder PCbuild while the x64 builds
land in the amd64 subfolder. The PGI and PGO builds for profile guided
@@ -122,6 +123,8 @@
Use x64 instead of Win32 for the x64 platform.
+ NOTE: Tcl/Tk 8.4 doesn't compile for x64.
+
Build Tcl first
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Use "Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
@@ -285,7 +288,7 @@
NOTE:
Official support for Itanium builds have been dropped from the build. Please
-contact as and provide patches if you are interested in Itanium builds.
+contact us and provide patches if you are interested in Itanium builds.
The project files support a ReleaseItanium configuration which creates
Win64/Itanium binaries. For this to work, you need to install the Platform